Grass-flower thrips of the genus Chirothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), with a key to species from Iran Author Minaei, Kambiz Author Mound, Laurence text Zootaxa 2010 2411 33 43 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.294003 f0bb01aa-a4e2-41dd-886d-8774211499df 1175-5326 294003 Chirothrips kurdistanus zur Strassen Chirothrips kurdistanus zur Strassen, 1967: 49. This species was described on specimens from Turkey that were collected from Digitaria sp. during quarantine inspection at Washington DC, USA . The species was recorded from Iran by Minaei et al. (2002) from Fars province, zur Strassen (2003b) recorded three females from Tehran taken on Cynodon dactylon , and also listed the species from Israel (zur Strassen, 2003a). Diagnosis: Body colour brown, tarsi yellow, forewing and clavus weakly shaded. Head distinctly produced in front of eyes ( Fig. 7 ); vertex with three to four pairs of setae, ocellar setae posterolateral to fore ocellus. Antennal segment II external margin almost straight, with small seta at apex; sensoria on segments III–IV simple and slender; antennal segment I large, without transverse ridge on dorsal surface. Tergal campaniform sensilla anterior to median setae (Fig. 25); posterior margins of tergites II–VIII with continuous craspedum with angulate lobes, tergite I with small lobed craspedum on median third only; sternites III–IV posterior margins with small tubercles laterally. Male apterous, smaller than female.