Neotropical Fungus-Feeding Thysanoptera of the Genus Sedulothrips (Phlaeothripinae)

Mound, Laurence A.; O'Neill, Kellie

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“…Richards ( 1978), for example, states that Neotropical vespids (one of the better known insect groups in the tropics) tend to be very widely distributed at the species level, apparently to a greater extent than are the birds. Similarly, at least some Neotropical dolichopodids (Diptera) have been recorded from a wide range of localities (Robinson 1970), and three largely unrelated genera of thrips (Thysanoptera) have representatives that have been recorded at localities stretching from New York and Iowa to southern Brazil (Mound 1972(Mound , 1976Mound & O'Neill 1972). Bourek (1988) comments on how widespread some of the chalcidoids have been found to be, while Janzen (1988) points out that of the 2000 macrolepidoptera species recorded for Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, more than 80 percent had previously been described, but from other localities in their "large" ranges.…”

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The Magnitude of Global Insect Species Richness

Gaston

1991

Conservation Biology

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Recent suggestions that insects number tens of millions of species have received much attention. Little consideration, hoWelJW, has been given to how such estimates compare with what else we know about insect species richness. Perhaps most significantly, the specialist knowledge of the taxonomic community at large has generalIy been ignored Collation of published and unpublished information from this source provides little to encourage belief in truly vast numbers of undescribed species of insects. For the insect groups for which figures are available, estimates of global total numbers of species are typically less than ten times the numbers of described species. Although minimum global estimates are more readily constructed than upper estimates, these figures uniformly fail to support assertions that there are 30 million or more species of insects. Rathw, a,figure of less than ten million seems more tenable, and one of around five million feasible.Additional, more circumstantial, evidence tends to support the idea that insect species numbers may not be as vast as has been claimed First, the contribution of canopy specialists to global richness m a y be less than often suggested.Second, a higher proportion of species than commonly entertained may have moderate to large geographic ranges. Third, the number of groups failing to increase in richness in the tropics may have been underestimated. Finally, the proportion of undescribed species encountered by many taxonomists seems insufficient to justcyy estimates of vast species numbers.

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The Magnitude of Global Insect Species Richness

Gaston

1991

Conservation Biology

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“…3). He studied numerous taxa of thrips during this period, including Hercinothrips (Mound 1966b), Taeniothrips (Mound 1966c), Thrips (Mound 1967b), the Australian Aeolothripidae (Mound 1967c(Mound , 1972a, Synaptothrips (Mound 1968a), Scirtothrips (Mound 1968b), Australian Phlaeothripidae , Heliothrips (Mound 1970b), Mecynothrips (Mound 1971b), Allothrips (Mound 1972b), Macrophthalmothrips , Sedulothrips (Mound & O'Neill 1972), the Australian Chirothrips (Mound & Palmer 1972), and Nesothrips (Mound 1974a). He initiated SEM studies on the feeding stylets of thrips (Mound, 1971c), and the remarkable coiled stylets of Casuarina thrips .…”

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Laurence Alfred Mound and his contributions to our knowledge of the Thysanoptera

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Hoddle

2011

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Laurence Alfred Mound became interested in taxonomy after two postgraduate periods at the British Museum of Natural History (now the Natural History Museum) in London where he discovered biological diversity and the endless variety of living things. While working in Nigeria and the Sudan, and studying variation in whitefly populations, he gained an appreciation for the great differences within species in behavior and morphology under varying environmental conditions. He was appointed to the British Museum of Natural History in 1964 where he worked on the taxonomy of thrips, whiteflies, and aphids until he retired as Keeper of Entomology in 1992. He now lives in Canberra, Australia, serving as an Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences at the Black Mountain Campus. Driving questions motivate him and provide insight into his thinking of the natural world: Why are there so many species of insects, yet so few species of thrips? Why so many at one place but so few at another? Do environmental and host plant factors drive the astonishing levels of morphological variation seen in single species? If so why? Why do so few thrips vector plant viruses, but why are those few so successful? Why are so many thrips associated with Acacia trees in Australia but so few on other plants? To address these questions and as part of his ongoing efforts to document the biodiversity of thrips, Laurence Mound has established 90 new Thysanoptera genera, and described 641 new species of thrips. These taxonomic designations are new hypotheses inviting scrutiny and study. At the time this document was written Laurence’s research articles had been cited almost 1,300 times. Here we review Laurence Mound’s career to this point, and we discuss the quality and quantity of his remarkable accomplishments in taxonomy, as well as highlighting his distinctive personal characteristics.

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Andrethrips floydi—a remarkable new Thysanopteron

Mound

1974

Journal of Entomology Series B, Taxonomy

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Neotropical Fungus-Feeding Thysanoptera of the Genus Sedulothrips (Phlaeothripinae)

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The Magnitude of Global Insect Species Richness

The Magnitude of Global Insect Species Richness

Laurence Alfred Mound and his contributions to our knowledge of the Thysanoptera

Andrethrips floydi—a remarkable new Thysanopteron

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