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Thrips flavus

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Thrips flavus is a species in the family Thripidae, order Thysanoptera. Source checklists list it for 6 countries, including Austria, Croatia and Germany.

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Quick facts about Thrips flavus

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
6 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does Thrips flavus 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.

Thrips flavus is listed for 6 countries.

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

  1. Austria
  2. Croatia
  3. Germany
  4. India
  5. Japan
  6. Taiwan

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Thrips flavus as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Ireland

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 flavus 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 flavus classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderThysanoptera
  5. familyThripidae
  6. genusThrips
  7. SpeciesThrips flavus Schrank, 1776

Synonyms Physothrips flavidus, Physothrips flavus, Taeniothrips clarus, Taeniothrips luteus, Taeniothrips rhopalantennalis, Taeniothrips saussureae, Taeniothrips sulfuratus, Thrips biarticulata, Thrips flavidus, Thrips flavosetosus, Thrips flavus f. lutea, Thrips flavus var. kyotoi, Thrips kyotoi, Thrips melanopa, Thrips nilgiriensis, Thrips obscuricornis, Thrips ochraceus

Other names and names in other languages (7)
  • třásněnka žlutáCzech
  • Gelber ThripsGerman
  • キイロハナアザミウマJapanese
  • 아까시총채벌레Korean
  • Трипс жёлтыйRussian
  • strapka žltáSlovak
  • 淡色薊馬Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Thrips flavus

Other species in the same genus Thrips.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Thrips flavus live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Thrips flavus for 6 countries, including Austria, Croatia, Germany, India and Japan. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is Thrips flavus an invasive species?

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

What kind of animal is Thrips flavus?

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

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{thrips_flavus_2026,
  title = {Thrips flavus (Thrips flavus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/thrips-flavus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}