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.
8 branches of this suborder, most-observed first
Thripoidea
superfamilyThripoidea
Aeolothripoidea
superfamilyAeolothripoidea
Melanthripoidea
superfamilyMelanthripoidea
Heterothripoidea
superfamilyHeterothripoidea
Merothripoidea
superfamilyMerothripoidea
Hemithripoidea
superfamilyHemithripoidea
Stenurothripoidea
superfamilyStenurothripoidea
Uzelothripoidea
superfamilyUzelothripoidea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 372872.