One new species and two new records of the genus Aeolothrips from Iran (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Aeolothripidae)

Jalil Alavi; Mehdi Modarres Awal; Lida Fekrat; Kambiz Minaei; Shahab Manzari

doi:10.3897/zookeys.557.7046

One new species and two new records of the genus Aeolothrips from Iran (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Aeolothripidae)

Zookeys. 2016 Jan 28:(557):111-20. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.557.7046. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Jalil Alavi¹, Mehdi Modarres Awal¹, Lida Fekrat¹, Kambiz Minaei², Shahab Manzari³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
² Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Iran.
³ Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Aeolothrips gundeliae sp. n. is described, and two bicolored species of the same genus, Aeolothrips ericae Bagnall and Aeolothrips albithorax Pelikan are newly reported from northeast of Iran. Diagnostic characters are provided for each species as well as illustrations to distinguish these species.

Keywords: Aeolothrips; Iran; new record; new species.

Publication types

Review