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Rhyacophilidae
Rhyacophilidae, free-living predatory caddisflies (Trichoptera) established by Stephens 1836; larvae caseless in cold fast streams; dominated by Rhyacophila, the largest caddisfly genus with over 700 species.
Scirtothrips dorsalis
Scirtothrips dorsalis, chilli thrips (SCITDO), a polyphagous quarantine thrips of over 100 hosts; a cryptic species complex spreading through Europe, with outbreaks in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Greece since 2016.
Silverfish
Silverfish (order Zygentoma, formerly Thysanura) are primitively wingless, scale-covered insects including Lepisma saccharina and firebrats; over 689 described species, ametabolous, long-lived, some household pests.
Siphonaptera
Siphonaptera, the fleas, is an order of wingless holometabolous blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals and birds, about 2,215 species in 19 extant families, sister to Boreidae within Mecoptera, Cretaceous in origin.
Spongiphoridae
Spongiphoridae (little earwigs, synonym Labiidae), a family of earwigs (Dermaptera) established by Verhoeff 1902 with type genus Spongiphora; about 500 tropical species, males with a single penis, family of unstable, likely paraphyletic classification.
Thripidae
Thripidae (common thrips, true thrips) is a family of Thysanoptera, Terebrantia, founded by Stephens in 1829; over 2100 species in four subfamilies, containing most pest thrips and all tospovirus vectors.
Thrips
Thrips (order Thysanoptera) are minute fringed-wing insects, about 6,500 described species, sister to Hemiptera; key species such as Frankliniella occidentalis and Thrips tabaci are major crop pests and tospovirus vectors managed through IPM.
Thrips palmi
Thrips palmi (melon thrips, oriental thrips), a yellow 1.0-1.3 mm polyphagous thrips of Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae; EPPO A1 quarantine pest, tospovirus vector, 17.5-day life cycle at 25°C.
Tunga penetrans
Tunga penetrans, the chigoe or jigger sand flea, is a flea whose mated female burrows into host skin causing tungiasis. Found in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa; treated with dimeticone oils.