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ThripsWiki - providing information on the World's thrips

This site was designed and produced in Canberra by Inkeri Lehtinen with Laurence Mound. Data was drawn from an electronic checklist first issued by CSIRO Australia in 2005, but originated historically from card-catalogues maintained over many years at the Natural History Museum, London, and card-catalogues developed by Richard zur Strassen at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt. GBIF funded visits to check data at the major thrips collections in Frankfurt, London and Washington DC for the 2005 system. The data has been extensively revised through bibliographic and web searches, and production of this new site was supported by DAFF Australia.

The prime objective is to give ready access to the scientific names and classification of the nearly 6000 species in the insect Order Thysanoptera.

The site is administered by an international group of taxonomists who can be contacted at: XXXXXX

We will be pleased to hear from users concerning any errors that they find, or additional information that they consider should be included.

Current contact address is Laurence Mound...............@csiro.au

Click to see a list of the 787 extant genera.

Click to see a list of the 70 Fossil genera.