Thripidae ...

• Main Author: Mound, Laurence A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Thysanoptera; Thripidae; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6190120; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6190120

Grass-living Thripidae in Australia Over much of southern temperate Australia pastures are dominated by imported grasses. In such areas the dominant grass-living Thripidae are species of Aptinothrips, Chirothrips and Limothrips, all introduced from Europe, also more rarely Apterothrips that presumably came from the west coast of North America (Hoddle et al., 2008). In contrast, Australian native Poaceae in southern Australia support one species of Caprithrips, and three species of Odontothripiella, all endemic to Australia. Karphothrips breeds only on the leaves of the native sword-grass Gahnia (Cyperaceae), and Moundothrips lives either on Poaceae or Restionaceae. Physemothrips is found only much further south, on grasses in the Antarctic Islands. In the warmer parts of Australia, widespread introduced grasses such as Buffel Grass, Cenchrus ciliaris, usually bear New World species of the genera Arorathrips and Plesiothrips. These thrips species now occur throughout the tropics and subtropics, and they are ... : Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200567 ...