Spore-feeding thrips (Phlaeothripidae) from leaf litter and dead wood in Australia

Mound, LA

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“…The smaller of these, Idolothripinae, comprises species that feed only on whole fungal spores, judging from their broad maxillary stylets. On Norfolk Island, six such species in five genera have been found (Mound 1974;Mound & Palmer 1983). All the other Phlaeothripidae listed here are species of Phlaeothripinae, and although most are fungus feeders, a few are predators or flower-feeders.…”

Section: Phlaeothripidaementioning

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Endemics and adventives: Thysanoptera (Insecta) biodiversity of Norfolk, a tiny Pacific Island

Mound¹,

Wells²

2015

Zootaxa

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The thrips fauna of Norfolk Island is a curious mix of endemics and adventives, with notable absences that include one major trophic group. A brief introduction is provided to the history of human settlement and its ecological impact on this tiny land mass in the western Pacific Ocean. The Thysanoptera fauna comprises about 20% endemic and almost 50% widespread invasive species, and shows limited faunal relationships to the nearest territories, Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. This fauna, comprising 66 species, includes among named species 29 Terebrantia and 33 Tubulifera, with four Tubulifera remaining undescribed. At least 12 species are endemics, of which 10 are mycophagous, and up to 10 further species are possibly native to the island. As with the thrips fauna of most Pacific islands, many species are widespread invasives. However, most of the common thrips of eastern Australia have not been found on Norfolk Island, and the complete absence of leaf-feeding Phlaeothripinae is notable. The following new taxa are described: in the Phlaeothripidae, Buffettithrips rauti gen. et sp. n. and Priesneria akestra sp. n.; and in the Thripidae, Scirtothrips araucariae sp. n. and Thrips merae sp. n.

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Section: Phlaeothripidaementioning

confidence: 99%

“…6): Described originally in the genus Cryptothrips, this species was known until recently from only a single micropterous female (Mound 1974). Recent field work has demonstrated that the species is common and locally abundant throughout Norfolk Island, living in the leaf-litter of Araucaria heterophylla.…”

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Endemics and adventives: Thysanoptera (Insecta) biodiversity of Norfolk, a tiny Pacific Island

Mound¹,

Wells²

2015

Zootaxa

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“…The gut contents of these species, and also many of the other 700 described species in the subfamily Idolothripinae (Family Phlaeothripidae), usually comprise a large number of fungal spores (Mound 2007). Idolothripinae species have unusually broad maxillary stylets for thrips, and these enclose a central food canal that measures internally at least 5-10μm wide (Mound 1974;Kirk 1997). By contrast, the maxillary stylets of those Phlaeothripinae species that feed on fungal hyphae are scarcely 3μm wide (Mound and Palmer 1983).…”

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Fungal spore-feeding by adult and larvalMecynothrips hardyi(Priesner) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae)

Tree¹,

Mound

Walter

2010

Journal of Natural History

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Mecynothrips hardyi (Priesner), a member of the phlaeothripid subfamily Idolothripinae, is demonstrated to feed on whole fungal spores on hanging dead leaves and branches of Acacia harpophylla (brigalow). The diet primarily comprises spores of a recently described species of Dothiorella (Botryosphaeriaceae). The 14μm-wide food canal enclosed by the maxillary stylets is evidently adapted to imbibe whole spores, and the foregut includes a sclerotized proventriculus with internal ridges that presumably aids in the abrasion and thus digestion of the thick-walled spores.

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“…Type species T. portentosus Karny, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound, 1974: 78. Kaleidothrips Kelly, in Kelly & Mayne, 1934.…”

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“…An identification key was provided by Mound (1974) to the nine species of Phaulothrips then recognized, all from Australia. Six further species are here described from this continent, and the available samples suggest that more undescribed species exist.…”

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Australian spore-feeding thrips of the genus Phaulothrips (Thysanoptera, Idolothripinae)

Mound

Tree²

2013

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Breeding by several of the spore-feeding species in the genus Phaulothrips is shown to be associated with abandoned tunnels of bees and scolytid beetles, as well as with the dead seed capsules of Eucalyptus species. The breeding sites for other species in the genus remain unknown, but 16 species are here recognised from Australia, of which the following six are newly described: P. daguilaris, P. flindersi, P. kingae, P. kranzae, P. oakeyi, P. whyallae.

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Spore-feeding thrips (Phlaeothripidae) from leaf litter and dead wood in Australia

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Endemics and adventives: Thysanoptera (Insecta) biodiversity of Norfolk, a tiny Pacific Island

Endemics and adventives: Thysanoptera (Insecta) biodiversity of Norfolk, a tiny Pacific Island

Fungal spore-feeding by adult and larvalMecynothrips hardyi(Priesner) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae)

Australian spore-feeding thrips of the genus Phaulothrips (Thysanoptera, Idolothripinae)

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