Classification
Heliothrips Haemorrhoidalis (Bouché) is commonly known as the Greenhouse Thrip. The scientific name of this organism translated from Latin to English means sun woodworm of the kind with a bloody end of the sacrum.
Domain- Eukarya-The greenhouse
thrip is placed in the domain Eukarya because it contains eukaryotic
cells that have membranous organelles.
Kingdom- Animalia-The greenhouse
thrip is placed in the kingdom Animalia because they are heterotrophic
and their cells do not contain a cell wall.
Phylum- Arthropoda-
The greenhouse thrip is placed in the phylum Arhtropoda because they
have jointed legs, a segmented body, specialized mouth parts, and a hard
exoskeleton.
Class-Insecta-
The greenhouse thrip is placed in the class Insecta because they have
three pairs of segmented legs and one pair of antennae.
Order-Thysanoptera- The greenhouse thrip is placed in
the order Thysanoptera because they have a slender, cylindrical,
elongate body, mouthparts for sucking and rasping, and legs that end in
a bladder-like organs.
Family-Thripidae-The greenhouse thrip is placed in the
family Thripidae because they have ovipositer curving downwards and
narrow wings with two veins.
Subfamily-Panchaetothripinae- The greenhouse thrip is
placed in the subfamily Panchaetothripinae because they eat leaves.
Genus-Heliothrips- The greenhouse thrip is placed in
the genus Heliothrips because they have antennae that have eight
segments and males are very scarce.
Species- haemorrhoidalis- The
greenhouse thrip is placed in the species haemorrhoidalis
because they have dark brown bodies and yellow legs.