MODERN CLASSIFICATION 
OF 
INSECTS. 
Orpver THYSANOPTERA AHaliday.* 
(Genus Thrips Linn.) 
Cuar. Wings 4, alike, long, narrow, membranous, neither folded nor 
reticulated, with long cilia, laid horizontally along the back when 
at rest. 
Mouth with two setiform mandibles; two triangular flat palpi- 
gerous (but not galeated) maxilla, and a palpigerous labium. 
Tarsi, with two joints, vesiculose at the tip. 
Pupa active, semi-complete. 
The insects of this order ( fig. 57.1. Phleothrips coriacea Hal. ?) 

are of a very minute size, rarely exceeding a line in length; the body 
is long, linear, and depressed; the head (fig. 57. 2. upper side) is 

* Bistiocr. Rerser. to tHe Tnysanoprera. (Turirips. ) 
Haliday, in Entomol. Mag. vol. iii. and iv. 
Schrank. Beitrage zur Naturgesch. 1776. Leipz. 
Passerini, in Atti dell Acad. Georgofili. t. xii. 3 
Vassali Eandi, in Mém. Acad. Turin, tom. xvi. p. 76. 
Heeger. ? 
Linneus, Fabricius, De Geer, Geoffroy, Latreille. 
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