The Phlaeothrips - lineage of fungus feeding thrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) in Iran with a new species of Hindsiothrips
Author
Minaei, Kambiz
text
Zootaxa
2013
3599
3
279
290
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3599.3.5
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Hindsiothrips
Stannard
This genus was described by
Stannard (1958)
for the North American species,
Hindsiana pullata
Hood
, and currently includes two species from North
America
(
pullatus
and
robustisetis
) (
Mound & Marullo 1996
) and two from Europe (
bonessi
and
navarrensis
) (
Goldarazena & Mound 1998
). In addition,
Priesner (1939)
described another species,
H. oettingeni
(Priesner)
, from a single specimen, and
Priesner (1964)
provided a key to distinguish this species from
H. bonessi
(Titschack)
. However, the single winged specimen on which
oettingeni
is based is probably the same species as
bonessi
that is known only from apterae (
Schliephake & Klimt 1979
). A fifth species of
Hindsiothrips
is described here from
Iran
. The species in this genus share the following character states: head longer than wide, eyes small, maxillary stylets less than one third of head width apart medially, retracted to compound eyes, maxillary bridge not developed. Antennae 8-segmented, III with one or two sensoria, IV with three sensoria (
Figs 2, 3
), pronotal epimeral sutures complete or incomplete, fore tarsi with a small curved tooth at inner apical margin (
Fig. 16
), pelta rounded in Palearctic species (including the new species) (Fig. 22), rectangular to trapezoidal in North American species.