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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Thrips (Thysanoptera)
Photo#162792
Thrip inside snail shell
Copyright © 2007 Aydin Örstan

Thrip inside snail shell
Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
December 24, 2007
Size: ~1.5 mm
What seems to be a thrip inside an empty snail shell (Zonitoides arboreus) found in a soil sample from a forested park. The thrip was ~1.5 mm long; had a black body; tip of abdomen was drawn out and pointed; antennae were light colored. It refused to come out of the shell.

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Contributed by Aydin Örstan on 28 December, 2007 - 5:58pm
Last updated 25 February, 2010 - 2:05pm

Thrips
I would suggest family Phlaeothripidae, the tube-tailed thrips. Strangely, both singular and plural forms of the word are "thrips". Neat images, btw.
… Brad Barnd, 29 December, 2007 - 3:40pm login or register to post comments

 
Paper reporting the observation
This observation has now been reported in this paper:
http://home.earthlink.net/~snailstales2/Orstan2008b.pdf
… Aydin Örstan, 29 February, 2008 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

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