AuthorKirk, W.D.J.
Year1996
TitleThrips
ISBN0 85546 307 4
SeriesNaturalists' Handbooks
TypeBook/Report
How CompleteThe keys covers the common species, with rarer ones only keyed to genus or family.
SourceNaturalists' Handbooks, 25, 70pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
IllustrationsCopious line drawings beside the text, and two colour plates of paintings plus two of line drawings are bound in the centre
Review (by Malcolm Storey)Introductory chapters cover the main habitats: fungi, leaves, galls and flowers. The identication section comprises 25 pages of dichotomous keys illustrated with line drawings. These assume you have a cleared and mounted microscope slide of the specimen (well you weren’t going to try to pin it were you?)
Examine Compound Microscope
Specimen PreparationCleared and mounted on microscope slides.
Identification difficultyMedium

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentTHYSANOPTERAthripsAnimalia
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