First-time user - Quick start

This short tutorial will help you to learn how to use this identification system to "Pest thrips of North America" based on LucID. It will take only a few minutes for you to become familiar with:

• the basic operations needed to identify your specimen and how to use fact sheet fusion files.

This "Pest thrips of North America" key is a powerful yet simple interactive identification and information system. It will allow you to identify and find information about the biology of nearly 100 species in the order Thysanoptera. "Pest thrips of North America" operates under the LucID System 3.4 and works on all common plattforms (Windows, Mac, Linux or Sun). This short tutorial describes step by step the features or functions of the LucID Player during an identification process. Please note that this tutorial substitutes does not the important information in the extensive help files of the LucID player system.
Further details to this identification and information system are available by clicking the corresponding buttons:

project introduction
techniques
thrips morphology
thrips and tospoviruses
crop introduction
acknowledgements
molecular identification

• To start the key please click the "Start Key"-button on the opening screen.