Author | Kirk, W.D.J. |
Year | 1996 |
Title | Thrips |
ISBN | 0 85546 307 4 |
Series | Naturalists' Handbooks |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | The keys covers the common species, with rarer ones only keyed to genus or family. |
Source | Naturalists' Handbooks, 25, 70pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd |
Illustrations | Copious 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 Preparation | Cleared and mounted on microscope slides. |
Identification difficulty | Medium |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Current | THYSANOPTERA | thrips | Animalia |
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