1: Introduction 2: Publications About Thrips 3: Biology 4: Biological Diversity 5: Life Cycles 6: Sex Determination and Sexual Dimorphism 7: Dispersal 8: Feeding 9: Economic Importance of Thrips 10: Feeding Damage 11: Virus Transmission 12: Direct Effects 13: Beneficial Thrips 14: Preparatory Techniques for Identifications 15: Thrips Classification 16: Thrips Identification 17: Characters Used in Identifications 18: Visual Keys to Genera 19: Figures for Species Keys 20: Sub-order Terebrantia 21: Family Merothripidae 22: Family Aeolothripidae 23: Family Heterothripidae 24: Family Adiheterothripidae 25: Family Thripidae 26: Sub-family Panchaetothripinae 27: Sub-family Thripinae 28: Sub-order Tubulifera 29: Family Phlaeothripidae 30: Sub-family Idolothripinae 31: Sub-family Phlaeothripinae I: Bibliography II: Glossary III: Host Plant Index IV: Genera and Species Index
Applied entomologists and crop protection specialists.
Laurence Alfred Mound is an entomologist born in Willesden, London. He works mostly on the biology and systematics of Thysanoptera (thrips), an area in which he is considered a world authority, and has described over 640 thrips species and some 90 thrips genera.
"This book enables applied entomologists and growers with little knowledge of thrips, but with access to a good compound microscope, to collect, prepare and easily identify to suborder, family, subfamily and genus adults of the common and pest thrips of the world. The authors' reasons for publishing a second edition only nine years after the first were to update its information and to facilitate its use by persons uncomfortable with English or with the use of dichotomous keys. It provides an accurate, concise and detailed introduction to the study of Thysanoptera and will be of great use to growers, applied entomologists and other biologists wishing to jumpstart their understanding of these fine little creatures and to identify pest species they encounter." -- Bruce Heming, Entomological Society of Canada Bulletin, Vol 32, No 3, Sept 2000
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