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.












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