Publications on thrips and Australian Acacia  - post- 1965

2004

Mound, L.A Australian Thysanoptera - biological diversity and a diversity of studies. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 248-257.

Wills, T.E., Chapman, T.W., Mound, L.A., Kranz, B D. & Schwarz, M.P. The natural history of Oncothrips kinchega, a new species of gall-inducing thrips with soldiers (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 169-176.

Crespi, B.J., Morris, D.C. & Mound, L.A. Evolution of ecological and behavioural diversity: Australian Acacia thrips as model organisms. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra & Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra. 328pp.

Perry, SP, Chapman, TW, Schwarz, MP and Crespi BJ (2004) Proclivity and effectiveness in gall defence by soldiers in five species of gall-inducing thrips: benefits of morphological caste dimorphism in two species (Kladothrips intermedius and K. habrus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56: 602-610.

Chapman, T.W. Consequences of inbreeding on the conditions necessary for balanced genetic polymorphisms in haplo-diploid populations. ACTA Zoologica Sinica 50:43-47.

2003

Perry, S.P., McLeish, M.J., Schwarz, M.P., Boyette, A.H., Zammit, J. and Chapman, T.W. Variation in propensity to defend by reproductive gall morphs in two species of gall-forming thrips. Insectes Sociaux 49: 54-58.

Chapman, TW. An inclusive fitness-based exploration of the origin of soldiers: the roles of sex ratio, inbreeding, and soldier reproduction. Journal of Insect Behavior 16: 481-501.

McLeish, MJ, Perry, SP, Gruber, D & Chapman, TW. Dispersal patterns of an Australian gall-forming thrips and its host tree (Oncothrips tepperi and Acacia oswaldii). Ecological Entomology 28: 243-246.

2002

Kranz, B.D., Schwarz, M.P., Morris, D.C., Crespi, B.J. Life history of Kladothrips ellobus and Oncothrips rodwayi: insight into the origin and loss of soldiers in gall-inducing thrips. Ecological Entomology 27: 49-57.

Morris, D.C. and Mound, L.A. Thrips as architects: modes of domicile construction on Acacia trees in arid Australia. Pp. 279-282 in Marullo, R. & Mound, L.A. (eds) Thrips and Tospoviruses: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Thysanoptera. Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra.

Morris, D.C., Schwarz, M.P. and Crespi, B.J. Pleometrosis in phyllode-gluing thrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) on Australian Acacia.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 75: 467-474. 

Morris, D.C., Schwarz, M.P., Cooper, S.J.B., and Mound, L.A. Phylogenetics of Australian Acacia thrips: the evolution of behaviour and ecology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25: 278-292.

Chapman, T.W., Kranz, B.D., Bejah, K., Morris, D., Schwarz, M.P. and Crespi, B.J. The evolution of soldier reproduction in social thrips. Behavioural Ecology 13: 519-525.  

Perry, S.P., McLeish, M.J., Schwarz, M.P., Boyette, A.H., Zammit, J. and Chapman, T.W. Variation in propensity to defend by reproductive gall morphs in two species of gall-forming thrips. Insectes Sociaux 49: XX-XX.

2001

Mound, L.A. and Morris, D.C. Domicile constructing phlaeothripine Thysanoptera from Acacia phyllodes in Australia: Dunatothrips Moulton and Sartrithrips gen.n., with a key to associated genera. Systematic Entomology 26: 401-419.

Morris, D.C., Schwarz, M.P., Crespi, B.J. and Cooper, S.J.B. Phylogenetics of gall-inducing thrips on Australian Acacia.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74: 73-86

Kranz, B.D., Schwarz, M.P., Wills, T.E., Chapman, T.W., Morris, D.C. and Crespi, B.J. A fully reproductive fighting morph in a soldier clade of gall-inducing thrips. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 50:151-161

Wills, T. E, Chapman, T. W, Kranz, B. D, & Schwarz, M. P. Reproductive division of labour coevolves with gall size in Australian thrips with soldiers. Naturwissenschaften 88: 526-529

Kranz, B. D, Chapman, T. W, Crespi, B. J, & Schwarz, M. P. Social biology and sex ratios in the gall-inducing thrips, Oncothrips waterhousei and Oncothrips habrus Insectes Sociaux 48:315-323

Kranz, B.D., Schwarz, M.P., Morris, D.C., and Crespi, B.J. Life history of Kladothrips ellobus and Oncothrips rodwayi: insight into the origin and loss of soldiers in gall-inducing thrips. Ecological Entomology 26: 1-9.

Crespi, B. J.  Altruism in the outback.  Natural History 110: 56-62.

2000

Morris, D.C., Mound, L.A. and Schwarz, M.P. Advenathrips inquilinus: a new genus and species of social parasites (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 39: 53-57

Mound, L.A. and Morris, D.C. Inquilines or kleptoparasites? New phlaeothripine Thysanoptera (Insecta) associated with domicile-building thrips on Acacia trees. Australian Journal of Entomology 39: 130-137.

Mound, L.A. and Moritz, G. Corroboreethrips; a new genus of minute apterous thrips (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) from the bark of Australian Acacia trees. Invertebrate Taxonomy 14: 709-716.

Chapman T. W., Crespi B. J., Kranz B. D., and Schwarz M. P. High relatedness and inbreeding at the origin of eusociality in gall-inducing thrips. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA  97: 1648-1650.

Kranz, B. D., Schwarz, M. P., Giles, L. and Crespi, B. J. Split sex ratios and virginity in a gall-inducing thrips. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13: 700-706.

1999

Mound, L.A. and Morris, D.C. Carcinothrips: A genus of Acacia phyllode-glueing thrips with grossly enlarged fore legs (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 38: 10-14.

Morris, D.C., Mound, L.A., Schwarz, M.P. and Crespi, B.J. Morphological Phylogenetics of Australian Gall-inducing Thrips and their Allies: the Evolution of Host-Plant Affiliations, Domicile Use, and Social Behaviour. Systematic Entomology 24: 1-11

Mound, L.A. and Morris, D.C. Abdominal armature in Xaniothrips species (Thysanoptera; Phlaeothripidae), kleptoparasites of domicile-producing thrips on Australian Acacia trees. Australian Journal of Entomology 38: 179-188.

Kranz, B.D, Schwarz, M.P., Mound, L.A. and Crespi, B.J. Social biology and sex ratios of the eusocial gall-inducing thrips, Kladothrips hamiltoni. Ecological Entomology 24: 432-442.

Crespi, B. J. and P. Abbot. The behavioral ecology and evolution of kleptoparasitism in Australian gall thrips. Florida Entomologist 82: 147-164.

1998

Crespi, B.J., Carmean, D.A., Mound, L.A., Worobey, M. & Morris, D. Phylogenetics of social behaviour in Australian gall-forming thrips: evidence from mitochondrial DNA sequence, adult morphology and behaviour, and gall morphology. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 9: 163-180.

Crespi, B. and M. Worobey. Comparative analysis of gall morphology in Australian gall thrips: the evolution of extended phenotypes. Evolution 52:1686-1696.

Chapman, T. and B. J. Crespi. High relatedness and inbreeding in two species of haplodiploid eusocial thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) revealed by microsatellite analysis. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 43:301-306.

1997

Crespi, B.J and Mound, L.A. Ecology and evolution of social behaviour among Australian gall thrips and their allies.166-180. In Choe, J. & Crespi, B.J. (eds) Evolution of Social Behaviour in Insects and Arachnids. Cambridge University Press.

Crespi, B. J., D. Carmean, and T. Chapman. The ecology and evolution of galling thrips and their allies. Annual Review of Entomology 42:51-71.

Mound, L.A. and Kranz, B. Thysanoptera and Plant Galls: Towards a Research Programme. 11-24, in Raman, A. (ed.). Ecology and Evolution of Plant-feeding Insects in Natural and Man-made Environments. National Institute of Ecology, New Delhi; Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands. 

Crespi, B. J. and Vanderkist, B.  Fluctuating asymmetry in functional and vestigial traits in a haplodiploid insect. Heredity 79:624-630.

1996

Mound, L.A., Crespi, B.J. & Kranz, B. Gall-inducing Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae) on Acacia phyllodes in Australia: host-plant relations and keys to genera and species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1171-1198

1995

Mound, L.A. and Crespi, B.J. Biosystematics of two new gall-inducing thrips with soldiers (Insecta: Thysanoptera) from Acacia trees in Australia. Journal of Natural History 29: 147-157. 

1992

Crespi, B. J. The behavioral ecology of Australian gall thrips. Journal of Natural History 26:769-809.

Crespi, B. J. Eusociality in Australian gall thrips. Nature 359: 724-726.

1971

Mound, L.A. Gall-forming thrips and allied species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripinae) from Acacia trees in Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Ent. 25: 387-466.

1970

Mound, L.A. Intra-gall variation in Brithothrips fuscus Moulton with notes on other Thysanoptera induced galls on Acacia phyllodes in Australia. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 105: 159-162.

1969

Mound, L.A. Revision of three Australian genera of Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera)  with seven new species, and one new generic synonym. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 8: 173-186