French Polynesia Thysanoptera Checklist

FRENCH POLYNESIA THRIPS CHECKLIST (note: these are names extracted from literature records) Species recorded from Moorea outlined in yellow. G.M. Nishida, Version 2008 September 22

ORDER Family Genus Austral Gambier Marquesas Society Tuamotu Outside French Polynesia THYSANOPTERA Phlaeothripidae Apterygothrips fuscus (Moulton, 1939) Rapa Carientothrips biformis (Moulton, 1939) Rapa Tahiti Cryptothrips constans Moulton & Steinweden, 1933 SEE Nesothrips niger Ethirothrips angusticornis (Bagnall, 1924) Moorea, Fiji (Lakeba, Vanua Levu, Vanua Mbalavu, Viti Tahiti Levu); INDOMALAYAN: Sri Lanka stenomelas (Walker, 1859) Mangareva Hatutaa, S Marutea Fiji; Hawaiian Is; AUSTRALASIAN: Hivaoa D'Entrecasteaux Is, INDOMALAYAN: Seychelles; Sri Lanka Haplothrips aculeatus (Fabricius, 1803) Rapa PALEARCTIC: Austria gowdeyi (Franklin, 1908) Rapa Taravai Moorea, Caroline Is (Koror); Cook Is (Aitutaki); Easter I, Fiji Tahiti (Viti Levu); Hawaiian Is; Mariana Is (Guam, Saipan, Tinian), American Samoa (Tutuila), Western Samoa (Upolu); AUSTRALASIAN: Australia, New Caledonia; INDOMALAYAN: Abyssinia , India, Taiwan; NEARCTIC: Mexico, southern USA; NEOTROPIC: Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, Central America; PALEARCTIC: Japan; Cosmopolitan zimmermani Moulton, 1939 Tahiti Fiji (Viti Levu) Hoplothrips flavitibia Moulton, 1928 Tubuai Tahiti Hawaiian Is (type locality) Mathetithrips megacephalus Moulton, 1939 Rapa Nesothrips niger (Moulton & Steinweden, 1932) Hivaoa, Uapou semiflavus (Moulton, 1939) Rapa sp. Tahiti Scolothrips pallidus (Beach, 1896) Tahiti NEARCTIC: USA (Iowa)

Thripidae Apterothrips secticornis (Trybom, 1896) Nukutavake NEARCTIC: USA (Oregon) Ayyaria chaetophora Karny, 1926 Tahiti INDOMALAYAN: India Dichromothrips corbetti (Priesner, 1936) Tahiti INDOMALAYAN: Malaya Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouche, 1833) Rapa Caroline Is (Kosrae, Yap), Easter I, Fiji (Viti Levu); Mariana Is (Guam, Saipan); PALEARCTIC: Germany; Cosmopolitan Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard, 1901) Tahiti Caroline Is (Truk), Mariana Is (Guam, Saipan); NEOTROPIC: Guadeloupe Thrips aleuritis Moulton & Steinweden, 1933 Moorea, Tahiti compressicornis Sakimura, 1969 Hivaoa hawaiiensis (Morgan, 1913) Rapa Mangareva Tahiti Hao Fiji; Hawaiian Is (Oahu); Pitcairn (Henderson); INDOMALAYAN: Ryukyu Is palmi Karny, 1925 French Polynesia; Hawaiian Is; Mariana Is (Guam); INDOMALAYAN: Sumatra rapaensis (Moulton, 1939) Rapa report from Fiji is in error sp. French Polynesia