Hoplothrips pedicularius (Haliday, 1836)
(Curtain Crust Thrips)

Interactions where Hoplothrips pedicularius is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
female macropter		female macropter feeds on live fruitbody			Stereum	curtain crusts	Russulales: Stereaceae	Thrips, Kirk, W.D.J., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				female macropter	Fungus / feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Stereaceae/Stereum/	Stereum	curtain crusts		live	fruitbody				(3-7)
female micropter		female micropter feeds on live fruitbody			Stereum	curtain crusts	Russulales: Stereaceae	Thrips, Kirk, W.D.J., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				female micropter	Fungus / feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Stereaceae/Stereum/	Stereum	curtain crusts		live	fruitbody				(1-9)
larva II		larva II feeds on live fruitbody			Stereum	curtain crusts	Russulales: Stereaceae	Thrips, Kirk, W.D.J., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				larva II	Fungus / feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Stereaceae/Stereum/	Stereum	curtain crusts		live	fruitbody				(1-12)
larva V		larva V feeds on live fruitbody			Stereum	curtain crusts	Russulales: Stereaceae	Thrips, Kirk, W.D.J., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				larva V	Fungus / feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Stereaceae/Stereum/	Stereum	curtain crusts		live	fruitbody				(5-7)
male macropter		male macropter feeds on live fruitbody			Stereum	curtain crusts	Russulales: Stereaceae	Thrips, Kirk, W.D.J., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				male macropter	Fungus / feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Stereaceae/Stereum/	Stereum	curtain crusts		live	fruitbody				(6-8)
male micropter		male micropter feeds on live fruitbody			Stereum	curtain crusts	Russulales: Stereaceae	Thrips, Kirk, W.D.J., 1996	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				male micropter	Fungus / feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Stereaceae/Stereum/	Stereum	curtain crusts		live	fruitbody				(1-9)
female macropter		female macropter may be found on dead wood			[Broadleaved trees]	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		Thysanoptera, Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				female macropter	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Broadleaved trees/	Broadleaved trees	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		dead	wood				(3-7)
female micropter		female micropter may be found on dead wood			[Broadleaved trees]	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		Thysanoptera, Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				female micropter	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Broadleaved trees/	Broadleaved trees	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		dead	wood				(1-9)
larva II		larva II may be found on dead wood			[Broadleaved trees]	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		Thysanoptera, Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				larva II	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Broadleaved trees/	Broadleaved trees	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		dead	wood				(1-12)
larva V		larva V may be found on dead wood			[Broadleaved trees]	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		Thysanoptera, Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				larva V	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Broadleaved trees/	Broadleaved trees	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		dead	wood				(5-7)
male macropter		male macropter may be found on dead wood			[Broadleaved trees]	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		Thysanoptera, Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				male macropter	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Broadleaved trees/	Broadleaved trees	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		dead	wood				(6-8)
male micropter		male micropter may be found on dead wood			[Broadleaved trees]	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		Thysanoptera, Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Phlaeothripidae/Hoplothrips pedicularius/	Hoplothrips pedicularius	curtain crust thrips				male micropter	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Broadleaved trees/	Broadleaved trees	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		dead	wood				(1-9)

Author & Year	Title	Source
Kirk, W.D.J., 1996	Thrips	Naturalists' Handbooks, 25, 70pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	Thysanoptera	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 1, part 11, 79pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Hoplothrips pedicularius (Curtain Crust Thrips) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

INSECTA
(true insects)

Hoplothrips pedicularius (Curtain Crust Thrips) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

THYSANOPTERA
(thrips)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Hoplothrips pedicularius (Curtain Crust Thrips)
Genus	Hoplothrips (fungus thrips)
Family	PHLAEOTHRIPIDAE (a family of thrips)
Order	THYSANOPTERA (thrips)
Division	Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Hoplothrips pedicularius is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Hoplothrips pedicularius (Curtain Crust Thrips)

Hoplothrips pedicularius (Curtain Crust Thrips) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

THYSANOPTERA
(thrips)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Hoplothrips pedicularius (Curtain Crust Thrips):

THYSANOPTERA
(thrips)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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