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Thrips major

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Thrips major is a species in the family Thripidae, order Thysanoptera. Source checklists list it for 3 countries: Austria, Georgia and Romania.

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Quick facts about Thrips major

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 Thrips major 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 major is listed for 3 countries.

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

  1. Austria
  2. Georgia
  3. Romania

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Thrips major as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Canary Islands
  2. 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 major 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 major classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderThysanoptera
  5. familyThripidae
  6. genusThrips
  7. SpeciesThrips major Uzel, 1895

Synonyms Physothrips inaequalis, Thrips banatica, Thrips corticina, Thrips dorsimaculata, Thrips fuscipennis ab. adustus, Thrips fuscipennis f. sarothamni, Thrips fuscipennis var. banatica, Thrips fuscipennis var. major, Thrips gracilicornis, Thrips major adusta, Thrips major gracilicornis, Thrips major var. adusta, Thrips major var. gracilicornis, Thrips permutatus, Thrips phytolaccae, Thrips ponticus, Thrips sarothamni, Thrips ustulata

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • RosenthripsGerman
  • Böğürtlen TripsiTurkish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Thrips major

Other species in the same genus Thrips.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Thrips major live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Thrips major for 3 countries: Austria, Georgia and Romania. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is Thrips major an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Thrips major as introduced in 2 countries: Canary Islands and Ireland, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Thrips major?

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

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{thrips_major_2026,
  title = {Thrips major (Thrips major)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/thrips-major},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}