Australasia & the Pacific
Australia has an extensive endemic thrips fauna, but the northern part of the continent shares many species with Indonesia. Unfortunately, the highly diverse fauna of New Guinea is almost completely unstudied. New Zealand and the Pacific Islands have a few endemic species, but the thrips faunas of these areas are usually dominated by introduced species.
On this site
Identification keys
- Australian Merothripidae Species
- Australian Melanthripidae Species
- Australian Aeolothripidae Species
- Australian Panchaetothripinae Species
- Australian Dendrothripinae Species
- Australian Sericothripinae Species
Taxon pages
- Australian Merothripidae Species
- Australian Melanthripidae Species
- Australian Aeolothripidae Species
- Australian Panchaetothripinae Species
- Australian Dendrothripinae Species
- Australian Sericothripinae Species
Distribution lists
Zur Strassen distribution lists are available for Fiji and New Zealand.
Identification systems
Crespi BJ, Morris DC & Mound LA. 2004. Evolution of ecological and behavioural diversity: Australian Acacia thrips as model organisms. Australian Biological Resources Study & Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia. 328pp
Hoddle M & Mound LA. 2003. The genus Scirtothrips in Australia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 268: 1–40. Available online.
Mound LA & Walker AK. 1982. Terebrantia (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 1: 1–113.
Mound LA & Walker AK. 1986. Tubulifera (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 10: 1–140.
Mound LA & Masumoto M. 2005. The genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Zootaxa 1020: 1–64.
Mound LA & Minaei K. 2007. Australian insects of the Haplothrips lineage (Thysanoptera – Phlaeothripinae). Journal of Natural History 41: 2919-2978.
Mound LA & Masumoto M. 2009. Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species. Zootaxa 2042: 1–76. Available online.
Checklists
Australia
Australian Faunal Directory: Thysanoptera.
New Caledonia
Bournier JP & Mound LA. 2000. Inventaire commenté des Thysanoptères de Nouvelle- Calédonie. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 105: 231–240
New Zealand and the Pacific
Mound LA & Walker AK. 1987. Thysanoptera as tropical tramps: new records from New Zealand and The Pacific. New Zealand Entomologist 9: 70–85.
Hoddle MS, Hoddle CD & Mound LA. 2008. An inventory of Thysanoptera collected from French Polynesia. Pacific Science 62: 509–515.