Terebrantia

Terebrantia is a suborder of thrips (order Thysanoptera). Order Thysanoptera includes 5,500 species classified into two suborders distinguished by the ovipositor. Terebrantia have a well-developed conical ovipositor, while the Tubulifera do not. It contains 13 families, five of which are only known from fossils. Members of Terebrantia mainly feed on plants. All have two larval instars followed by two pupal instars. [2]

Thysanoptera	Terebrantia   Melanothripidae     other Terebrantia     Tubulifera Phlaeothripidae

Terebrantia
Adult Franklinothrips vespiformis (Aeolothripidae), a widely distributed tropical species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Thysanoptera
Suborder:	Terebrantia Haliday, 1836[1]
Families
Adiheterothripidae Aeolothripidae Fauriellidae † Hemithripidae Heterothripidae † Jezzinothripidae † Karataothripidae Melanthripidae Merothripidae † Scudderothripidae Stenurothripidae Thripidae † Triassothripidae Uzelothripidae

References

1. An epitome of the British genera, in the Order Thysanoptera, with indications of a few of the species. AH Haliday, 1836
2. "Terebrantia". Ozthrips Thysanoptera in Australia. OzThrips.

• Mound, L.A., Nakahara, S. & Tsuda, D.M. 2016. Thysanoptera-Terebrantia of the Hawaiian Islands: an identification manual. ZooKeys 549, pages 71–126, doi:10.3897/zookeys.549.6889
• Peñalver, E.; Nel, P. 2010: Hispanothrips from Early Cretaceous Spanish amber, a new genus of the resurrected family Stenurothripidae (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.), 46, pages 138–147. ISSN 0037-9271

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