Bed-jacket vs Thrips

Alectryon tomentosus compared with Thrips palmi

Key Differences

• Bed-jacket is Least Concern while Thrips is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bed-jacket	Thrips
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Insecta (Insects)
Order	Sapindales (Sapindales)	Thysanoptera (Thysanoptera)
Family	Sapindaceae	Thripidae
Genus	Alectryon	Thrips
Species	Alectryon tomentosus	Thrips palmi

Conservation Status

Bed-jacket

LC — Least Concern

Thrips

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bed-jacket	Thrips
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bed-jacket

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Thrips

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (South Africa), Asia (Japan, Taiwan), Europe (9 countries), North America (Dominica, United States), and South America (Venezuela).

Bed-jacket

The Bed-jacket (Alectryon tomentosus) is a species in the genus Alectryon. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.