View source for Acrotrichis (New Zealand)

NAME

''Acrotrichis'' Motschulsky, 1848

BIOSTATUS

Present in the wild. Possibly indigenous. Otherwise exotic.

SPECIES

[A=Exotic, present in the wild; E=Endemic, present in the wild]

I can confirm the presence of the following 4 species: 
* ''Acrotrichis inconspicua'' (Matthews, 1874) A?
* ''Acrotrichis insularis'' (Mäklin, 1852) A
* ''Acrotrichis josephi'' (Matthews, 1872) A
* ''Acrotrichis'' sp. ST1 E?

An additional three species have been reported in the literature, but their presence in N.Z. stands in need of confirmation: 
* ''Acrotrichis fascicularis'' (Herbst, 1793) A [very old record only, with no definite locality]
* ''Acrotrichis grandicollis'' (Mannerheim, 1844) A [probably recorded in error by Sörensson (2011: 320), no definite records given]
* ''Acrotrichis montandoni'' (Allibert, 1844) A [single specimen record]

The following two nominal species have been reported from N.Z. (as valid species), but are now placed in synonymy:
* ''Acrotrichis subantarctica'' Gressitt & Samuelson, 1964 [=''Acrotrichis insularis'' (Mäklin, 1852)]
* ''Acrotrichis subcognata'' Johnson, 1975 [=''Acrotrichis josephi'' (Matthews, 1872)]

REFERENCES
* Sörensson, M. 2011: The Ptiliidae of Sardinia – new records, distribution and zoogeography, with a checklist of Italian species (Coleoptera). ''In'': Nardi, G. ''et al''. (eds.), Biodiversity of Marganai and Montimannu (Sardinia). Research in the framework of the ICP Forests network. ''Conservazione habitat invertebrati'', '''5''': 313-329. [http://93.62.210.78/download/sardegna/PAG_313-329.pdf Full article (PDF)]