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

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.

A key to species of the genus Aeolothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Aeolothripidae) from Iran with description of new species

“…A key is provided according to examined specimens at following collections: Entomological Museum, Northwest A. & F. University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China (NWAFU); National Zoological Museum of China, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Han's collection) (IOZ); Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province (ZJUH); Aquatic Insects and Soil Animals, Department of Entomology at South China Agricultural University (SCAU), Guangzhou, China; and the Collection of Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Ilam University, Iran (ILAMU); and original descriptions by the following authors: Alavi et al (2015Alavi et al ( , 2016, Minaei (2013Minaei ( , 2015, Minaei and Alavi (2017). DESCRIPTION.…”

An updated checklist of Iranian thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera)

“…), and Jalil Alavi and associates at Ferdowsi University (Khorasan-e-Razavi prov.). Furthur Mirab-balou (2013a,b;2014a,b;2015;2016a,b,c,d,e;2018), Mirab-balou et al (2013Mirab-balou et al ( , 2014aMirab-balou et al ( ,b,c,d, 2015, Mirab-balou & Chen (2015), Mirab-balou & Dosty (2015, , , Mirab-balou et al (2017), Alavi et al (2013aAlavi et al ( ,b, 2014Alavi et al ( , 2015Alavi et al ( , 2016Alavi et al ( , 2018, Jahangiri Sisakht et al (2013), Gholami et al (2014), Fekrat & Manzari (2014a,b), Poorkashkooli et al (2015), Fekrat et al (2016), Miramirkhani et al (2016), Mombeini et al (2017), Minaei (2013bMinaei ( ,c, 2014aMinaei ( ,b, 2015aMinaei ( ,b,c, 2016aMinaei ( ,b, 2017a, Minaei et al (2014Minaei et al ( , 2016aMinaei et al ( ,b, 2017, Minaei & Mound (2014a,b, 2015, 2018, Minaei & Abdollahi (2015), Minaei & Afsharizadeh Bami (2017), are some of the major studies which have substantially added a number of species to the Thysanoptera from Iran. These studies have substantially increased the number of species known from Iran, totaling 270 species in 82 genera belonging to five families, adding 61 species and eight genera to the last published checklist from Iran by Mirab-balou (2013a).…”

Current and Future Diversity of Thysanoptera Species in the Cereal Areas of the Lakes Region, Turkey

“…Suborder Terebrantia includes 2,646 described species belonging to Thripidae (2201 species), Aeolothripidae (222 species), Melanthripidae (79 species), and other families (Buckman et al, 2013; Ebratt-Ravelo et al, 2019). While species of Thripidae and Aeolothripidae are phytophagous and predatory, some species of Aeolothripidae are facultative predators of small arthropods (Mound, 2002; Tyagi et al, 2008; Reynaud, 2010; Alavi et al, 2016; Ebratt-Ravelo et al, 2019; Mirab-balou, 2019). All species of Melanthripidae are phytophagous (Moritz et al, 2001; Mound and Morris, 2007; Mirab-balou et al, 2011; Mirab-balou & Chen, 2011).…”