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Avocado thrips

Scirtothrips perseae Nakahara, 1997

Status not recordedinsects

The avocado thrips (Scirtothrips perseae) is a species in the family Thripidae, order Thysanoptera.

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Quick facts about the avocado thrips

Weight
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Length
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Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the avocado thrips live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the avocado thrips as introduced in 1 country.

  1. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the avocado thrips endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the avocado thrips classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderThysanoptera
  5. familyThripidae
  6. genusScirtothrips
  7. SpeciesScirtothrips perseae Nakahara, 1997

Synonyms Scirtothrips aguacatae, Scirtothrips kupandae, Scirtothrips manihotifloris, Scirtothrips tacambarensis, Scirtothrips uruapaniensis

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Relatives of the avocado thrips

Other species in the same genus Scirtothrips.

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Common questions

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Is the avocado thrips an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the avocado thrips as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the avocado thrips?

The avocado thrips (Scirtothrips perseae) belongs to the family Thripidae in the order Thysanoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Avocado thrips (Scirtothrips perseae). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/avocado-thrips

MLA

“Avocado thrips (Scirtothrips perseae).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/avocado-thrips.

BibTeX
@misc{avocado_thrips_2026,
  title = {Avocado thrips (Scirtothrips perseae)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/avocado-thrips},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}