Thripidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Thysanoptera
Subordo: Terebrantia

Familia: Thripidae
Subfamiliae: Dendrothripinae - Panchaetothripinae - Sericothripinae - Thripinae

Overview of genera

Danothrips – Guerothrips – Heliothrips – Neoheliothrips – Paroxythrips – †Convexithrips – Taeniothrips – ...
Name

Thripidae Stevens, 1829
References

Masumoto, M. & Okajima, S. 2017. Paroxythrips gen. n. (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), associated with the gymnosperm order Araucariales in Japan and Australia. Zootaxa 4236(2): 343–350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.9. Reference page.
Mirab-Balou, M. & Tong, X-L. 2015: Two new synonyms among Chinese Thripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Zootaxa 3941(1): 149–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.11. Reference page.
Mound, L.A. 2009: Sternal pore plates (glandular areas) of male Thripidae (Thysanoptera). Zootaxa, 2129: 29–46. PDF
Nakahara, S., O'Donnell, C.A. & Mound, L.A. 2015. Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis and its relatives, with one new species and one new genus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Zootaxa 4021(4): 578–594. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.4.8. Open access. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Shmakov, A.S. 2009: [The oldest members of the families Aeolothripidae and Thripidae (Insecta: Thysanoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia]. Paleontologicheskii zhurnal, 43(4): 68–72. [in Russian, English translation in Paleontological journal, 43(4): 428–432. DOI: 10.1134/S003103010904011X]
Tyagi, K., Singha, D. & Kumar, V. 2017. Danothrips litseae sp.n. (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from India on leaves of Litsea. Zootaxa 4269(1): 137–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.1.8. Reference page.
Wang, Z-H., Mound, L. & Tong, X-L. 2019. Frankliniella species from China, with nomenclatural changes and illustrated key (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zookeys, 873: 43–53. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.873.36863 Open access Reference page.

Thripidae

The Thripidae are the most speciose family of thrips, with over 290 genera representing just over two thousand species.[2] They can be distinguished from other thrips by a saw-like ovipositor curving downwards, narrow wings with two veins, and antennae of six to ten antennomeres with stiletto-like forked sense cones on antennal segments III and IV.[3]

They are considered to be among the more derived of thrips, having evolved many traits key to specializing as cryptophilous phytovores, living in the narrow spaces at the bases of leaves and within flowers.[4][5]

Several species are economically significant pests, some of them invasive. Almost all of them are typical thrips which belong in the largest subfamily, the Thripinae.

Systematics

Many of the divisions within the Thripidae are not based on common ancestry, but are instead based on common environment and morphological homoplasy, and these distinctions tend to be irrelevant to true phylogenetic relationships.[6] As a result, many species of the Thripidae have undergone recent drastic taxonomic revision, splitting and promoting two tribes, Dendrothripini and Sericothripini, to subfamily status,[7] with the possibility of greater reorganizations to come as modern phylogenetic methods and a more comprehensive morphological analysis provide additional evidence defining evolutionary relationships.[8] This revision is probably necessary, as more than half of the genera in family Thripidae are monobasic, with the majority of monotypic species concentrated in subfamily Thripinae.[9] However, a 2012 molecular phylogeny found that the Thripinae was paraphyletic; further work will be needed to clarify the relationships within the group.[10]
Subfamilies

The Thripidae are thus ordered into four subfamilies:

Dendrothripinae Priesner, 1925 (16 genera)
Panchaetothripinae Bagnall, 1912 (38 genera)
Sericothripinae Karny, 1921 (11 genera)
Thripinae (227 genera)

References

Stephens, J.F. (1829). A systematic catalogue of British insects. London. p. 363.
Mound, L. A. 2002. So many thrips – so few tospoviruses?, pp. 15 - 18. In L. A. Mound and R. Marullo [eds.], Thrips and Tospoviruses: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Thysanoptera. CSIRO Entomology, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Mound, L. A. 1998. Thysanoptera: an identification guide. CAB International, Oxon, New York.
Gentile, A. G., and S. F. Bailey. 1968. A revision of the genus Thrips Linnaeus in the New World, with a catalogue of world species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Lewis, T. 1973. Thrips. Their biology, ecology and economic importance. Academic Press, London, GB.
Mound, L. A., and D. C. Morris. 2004. Thysanoptera Phylogeny – the Morphological Background. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica 39: 101 - 113.
Moritz, G., D. C. Morris, and L. A. Mound. 2001. Thrips ID: an interactive identification and information system (CD), Pest thrips of the world. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.
Grimaldi, D., A. Shmakov, and N. Fraser. 2004. Mesozoic Thrips, and early evolution of the Order Thysanoptera (Insecta). Journal of Paleontology 78: 941 - 952.
Mound, L. A. 2005. Thysanoptera: diversity and interactions. Annual Review of Entomology 50: 247 - 269.

Buckman, Rebecca S.; Mound, Laurence A.; Whiting, Michael F. (2012). "Phylogeny of thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) based on five molecular loci". Systematic Entomology. 38 (1): 123–133. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00650.x. S2CID 84909610.