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Just in case you were curious: Florida is full of crazy people. The mascot of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team is the Thunderbug, an unusually large thrips. While I can not speak to the species, its large size and absent wings lead me to believe that it is an offshoot of the predatory Phlaeothripidae of suborder Tubulifera from Australia, but I would be willing to listen to arguments that cite its relatively large femora in the fore and hind limbs and zipper-like sutures on the pronotum as evidence that it comes from family Merothripidae in the Terebrantia instead.