Tubulifera Australiensis

Thysanoptera-Phlaeothripidae genera in Australia

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In the insect Order Thysanoptera, the suborder Tubulifera includes only a single family of living thrips, the Phlaeothripidae, and this family includes at least 66% of the thrips species known from Australia. The illustrated identification system presented here helps to distinguish the 150 genera of Phlaeothripidae recorded from Australia up to January 2022, and for each genus a list is provided of species recorded from Australia, together with information about their biology and suitable published references. Adults of many species of Phlaeothripidae exhibit remarkable differences in body structure between large and small individuals, also many of them have surprising structural differences between sexes as well as between winged and wingless individuals. As a result of such variation, it is often difficult to identify genera and species without having access to a representative collection. This system is a companion to Thysanoptera Australiensis that was published in 2020 and provided identification and information details for the 100 genera and 340 species in the five families of suborder Terebrantia known from Australia.
This is the sixth similar system concerning Thysanoptera that has been issued from CSIRO, Canberra in recent years.

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