Thrips (Insecta, Thysanoptera) of Iran: a revised and updated checklist

Abstract

In Iran, as a result of recent changes in nomenclature 201 species and one species group of the insect Order Thysanoptera, are here listed in 70 genera and five families. In considering species listed previously from this country, the presence of 7 species is considered not confirmed, and 12 species are excluded from the Iranian list. Problems in the study of Iranian Thysanoptera are discussed briefly.

An updated checklist of Iranian thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera)

“…The last checklist of thrips from Iran was published by Mirab-balou (2013a) including 217 species in 74 genera; and at the same time, Minaei (2013a) published a checklist of Iranian thrips including 201 species in 70 genera. Several papers have appeared on the taxonomy and faunistics of these insects in Iran, chiefly from the following authors: Majid Mirab-balou and associates at Ilam University (Ilam prov.…”

Scirtothrips genus-group in Iran with an unusual new species of Scirtothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

“…Up to now in Iran, only two genera of Scirtothrips genus-group have been recorded, including the three species Drepanothrips reuteri, Scirtothrips dorsalis, and S. mangiferae (Minaei 2013;Minaei et al 2016). In this paper a new Scirtothrips species is described, and an illustrated key provided to the members of this group in Iran together with information about each species from this country.…”

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

“…There has recently been a remarkable increase in the number of taxonomic studies on this genus, with the number of species known from Iran increasing from 12 (Bhatti et al 2009) to 17 (Minaei 2013b), and with four new species in the most recent studies (Minaei 2014, 2015; Alavi et al 2015). In this paper one further new species of Aeolothrips is described from Iran.…”