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Order Thysanoptera - Thrips


The Thrips of California Part 1: Suborder Terebrantia
By Bailey, S.F.
University of California Press, 1957

Order Thysanoptera Haliday, 1836. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
By Mound L.A.
Zootaxa 3703: 49–50, 2013

Thysanoptera of Southeastern U.S.A.: A checklist for Florida and Georgia
By Diffie S., Edwards G.B., Mound L.A.
Zootaxa 1787: 45–62, 2008

Thysanoptera recorded from California, U.S.A.: A checklist
By Hoddle M.S., Mound L.A., Nakahara S.
Fla. Entomol. 87: 317-323, 2004

Western Flower Thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis [Pergande])
By Jeffrey D. Cluever, Hugh A. Smith, Joseph E. Funderburk, Galen Frantz
Entomology and Nematology Department, UF/IFAS Extension, 2015

Western Flower Thrips and Alaska
By Jacquelyn Schade
Alaska Entomological Society Vol 10, Iss 1, pgs 2-4, 2017
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Frankliniella occidentalis = Frankliniella occidentalis

Franklinothrips; a pantropical Thysanoptera genus of ant-mimicking obligate predators (Aeolothripidae)
By Mound L.A., Reynaud P.
Zootaxa 864: 1–16, 2005

Review of parasitoid wasps and flies associated with Limacodidae in North America, with a key to genera
By Michael W. Gates, John T. Lill, Robert R. Kula, J,E. O'Hara, D.B. Wahl, D.R. Smith, J,B. Whitfield, S.M. Murphy, & T.M. Stoepler
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 114(1): 24-110, 2012
Full title: Review of parasitoid wasps and flies (Hymenoptera, Diptera) associated with Limacodidae (Lepidoptera) in North America, with a key to genera.

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