Giant Thrips
Tail (hairy end)
Ellura
Thrips
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Thrips (Phlaeothripidae sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Thrips (Thysanoptera)
Family: Thrips (Phlaeothripidae)
Species: Thrips (Phlaeothripidae sp)
This Photo:     Dorsal

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
A strange note on the English language - it seems it's one thrips or two thrips, not one thrip.

Copyright © 2016-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 15-May-2016
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.