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Thrips discolor

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Thrips discolor is a species in the family Thripidae, order Thysanoptera.

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Quick facts about Thrips discolor

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
Not recorded

Where does Thrips discolor live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Thrips discolor 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 Thrips discolor 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 Thrips discolor classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderThysanoptera
  5. familyThripidae
  6. genusThrips
  7. SpeciesThrips discolor Haliday, 1836

Synonyms Thrips nubilans, Thrips pallens

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Thrips discolor

Other species in the same genus Thrips.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is Thrips discolor an invasive species?

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

What kind of animal is Thrips discolor?

Thrips discolor (Thrips discolor) 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). Thrips discolor (Thrips discolor). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/thrips-discolor

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{thrips_discolor_2026,
  title = {Thrips discolor (Thrips discolor)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/thrips-discolor},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}