Australasian Region (and 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, particularly New Caledonia and Fiji, have a smaller endemic thrips fauna, although the fauna of these smaller land masses is largely dominated by introduced species.
Australian Biological Resources Study Thysanoptera Checklist [1]
Bournier JP & Mound LA. 2000. Inventaire commenté des Thysanoptères de Nouvelle- Calédonie. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 105: 231–240.
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 MS, Hoddle CD & Mound LA. 2008. An inventory of Thysanoptera collected from French Polynesia. Pacific Science 62: 509–515.
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 & Walker AK. 1987. Thysanoptera as tropical tramps: new records from New Zealand and The Pacific.New Zealand Entomologist 9: 70–85.
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.
Thysanoptera Aotearoa - Thrips of New Zealand [2]
Zur Strassen manuscript lists for Fiji and New Zealand - see: zur Strassen distribution lists.
