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Plague thrips

Thrips imaginis Bagnall, 1926

Status not recordedinsects

The plague thrips (Thrips imaginis) is a species in the family Thripidae, order Thysanoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia.

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Quick facts about the plague 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
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the plague 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 plague thrips is listed for 1 country.

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

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the plague 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 plague thrips classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderThysanoptera
  5. familyThripidae
  6. genusThrips
  7. SpeciesThrips imaginis Bagnall, 1926

Synonyms Aptinothrips apertus, Neophysopus aureolus, Neophysopus io, Thrips fortis, Thrips imaginis var. apicalis, Thrips shakespearei

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the plague thrips

Other species in the same genus Thrips.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the plague thrips live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the plague thrips for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the plague thrips?

The plague thrips (Thrips imaginis) 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). Plague thrips (Thrips imaginis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/plague-thrips

MLA

“Plague thrips (Thrips imaginis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/plague-thrips.

BibTeX
@misc{plague_thrips_2026,
  title = {Plague thrips (Thrips imaginis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/plague-thrips},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}