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Privet thrips

Dendrothrips ornatus (Jablonowski, 1894)

Status not recordedinsects

The privet thrips (Dendrothrips ornatus) is a species in the family Thripidae, order Thysanoptera. Source checklists list it for 3 countries: Czechia, Hungary and Poland.

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Quick facts about the privet 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
3 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the privet 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 privet thrips is listed for 3 countries.

PolandHungaryCzechia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Czechia
  2. Hungary
  3. Poland

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the privet thrips as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Belarus
  2. 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 privet 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 privet thrips classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderThysanoptera
  5. familyThripidae
  6. genusDendrothrips
  7. SpeciesDendrothrips ornatus (Jablonowski, 1894)

Synonyms Dendrothrips adusta, Dendrothrips ornatus var. schillei, Dendrothrips schillei, Dendrothrips tiliae, Thrips ornata

Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • LigusterthripsGerman
  • LigustertripsDutch
  • Трипс липовыйRussian
  • strapka krovinováSlovak

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the privet thrips

Other species in the same genus Dendrothrips.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the privet thrips live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the privet thrips for 3 countries: Czechia, Hungary and Poland. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the privet thrips an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the privet thrips as introduced in 2 countries: Belarus and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the privet thrips?

The privet thrips (Dendrothrips ornatus) 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). Privet thrips (Dendrothrips ornatus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/privet-thrips

MLA

“Privet thrips (Dendrothrips ornatus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/privet-thrips.

BibTeX
@misc{privet_thrips_2026,
  title = {Privet thrips (Dendrothrips ornatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/privet-thrips},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}