Acacia Thrips vs Cuban Laurel Thrips

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute Acacia Thrips Cuban Laurel Thrips
Scientific Name Kladothrips waterhousei Gynaikothrips ficorum
Order Thysanoptera Thysanoptera
Family Phlaeothripidae Phlaeothripidae
Size 1.5-2.5 mm 2.5-3.0 mm
Habitat Woodlands Woodlands
Diet Gall Makers Herbivores
Regions Oceania Asia, North America, South America, Oceania
Conservation Not Evaluated Not Evaluated

Acacia Thrips

An Australian gall-inducing thrips that creates enclosed galls on Acacia phyllodes. It exhibits a soldier caste that defends the gall.

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Did You Know?

This thrips has evolved a soldier caste with enlarged forelegs, making it one of the few eusocial insect lineages outside Hymenoptera.

Cuban Laurel Thrips

A large dark thrips that causes leaf rolling on Ficus species. Colonies live inside the rolled leaves they create.

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Did You Know?

Entire colonies of hundreds of individuals live communally inside a single rolled fig leaf.