The Tubulifera (Hexapoda, Thysanoptera) of the Maltese Islands.

This work records the presence of 13 species of tubuliferan thrips from the Maltese Islands. Eleven of these species, namely , , , , , , , , , and are new records for the Maltese Islands. Two species: and can be described as subcosmopolitan in distribution, another three species: , and are distributed across the Holarctic and Palaearctic regions, while a further seven: , , , , , and have a European and/or Mediterranean distribution.

A Preliminary Survey of Olive Grove in Biskra (Southeast Algeria) Reveals a High Diversity of Thrips and New Records.

This study was conducted to determine Thysanoptera species composition associated with olive trees, fruit injury, fluctuations in the abundance of the most phytophagous species relative to the phenological stages of the olive tree, and the temporal variations in the species in relation to environmental variations in Biskra province between 2018 and 2020. The olive orchard chosen for this study is located at the Experimental Station of the Technical Institute for the Development of Saharan Agriculture (ITDAS) in El Outaya (Biskra, a Saharan region of Algeria). Five trees were sampled each week, and thrips were collected by shaking 20 twigs (4 twigs per tree).

New records of Phlaeothripinae from New Caledonia, with the description of a new species of Adraneothrips Hood (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae).

Four species of phlaeothripines are newly recorded and illustrated from New Caledonia: Adraneothrips moundi n. sp., Baenothrips cf.

Antennal sense cone variation in Teuchothrips species of New Caledonia, with one new generic combination (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae).

Four species of Teuchothrips are recognised as endemic to New Caledonia and distinct from the many species of this genus in Australia. Three of these species are shown to have a variable number of sense cones on antennal segment IV, in contrast to most recorded species in the Liothrips-lineage. One endemic species is removed from Teuchothrips and considered here as Neocecidothrips pacificus (Bianchi) comb.

Pennathrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), a new panchaetothripine genus from New Caledonia.

The Pacific island of New Caledonia is located about 1500km East of Australia just north of the Tropic of Capricorn. It has a rich endemic flora involving more than 5000 plant species (Endemia.nc 2021; Guillaumin 1948), but the only account of the Thysanoptera fauna apart from some new species descriptions is a check-list of 44 genera and 68 species (Bournier Mound 2000).