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Palm thrips

Thrips palmi Karny, 1925

Status not recordedinsects

The palm thrips (Thrips palmi) is a species in the family Thripidae, order Thysanoptera. Source checklists list it for 4 countries, including India, Indonesia and Sudan.

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Quick facts about the palm thrips

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

Where does the palm thrips live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The palm thrips is listed for 4 countries.

IndonesiaSudanIndiaTaiwan
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. India
  2. Indonesia
  3. Sudan
  4. Taiwan

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the palm thrips as introduced in 6 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. Japaninvasive
  2. Dominica
  3. Ecuador
  4. South Africa
  5. United States
  6. Venezuela

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 palm 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 palm thrips classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderThysanoptera
  5. familyThripidae
  6. genusThrips
  7. SpeciesThrips palmi Karny, 1925

Synonyms Chloethrips aureus, Thrips clarus, Thrips gossypicola, Thrips gracilis, Thrips leucadophilus

Other names and names in other languages (11)
  • Melon thripsEnglish
  • třásněnka PalmehoCzech
  • PalmetripsDanish
  • MelonenthripsGerman
  • Trips del melónSpanish
  • palmuripsiäinenFinnish
  • ミナミキイロアザミウマJapanese
  • 오이총채벌레Korean
  • MeloentripsDutch
  • 南黃薊馬Chinese
  • Trips de la palmaSpanish

Catalogue of Life

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the palm thrips live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the palm thrips for 4 countries: India, Indonesia, Sudan and Taiwan. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the palm thrips an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the palm thrips as invasive in 1 country: Japan. It lists it as introduced in 6 in all.

What kind of animal is the palm thrips?

The palm thrips (Thrips palmi) 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). Palm thrips (Thrips palmi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/palm-thrips

MLA

“Palm thrips (Thrips palmi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/palm-thrips.

BibTeX
@misc{palm_thrips_2026,
  title = {Palm thrips (Thrips palmi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/palm-thrips},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}