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 atricorpus Girault Chirtothrips (sic) atricorpus Girault, 1927 :1 . Although this species was described originally from Australia , it is not considered to be native to that continent. Mound & Palmer (1972) suggested that it was probably introduced to Australia by shipping from one of the East African ports, and these authors also reported the species from Ethiopia . Bhatti et al. (2009) list it from Iran together with earlier references from that country. Diagnosis: Body colour brown, tarsi light brown, forewing and clavus shaded. Head weakly produced in front of eyes ( Fig. 5 ); vertex with two pairs of setae, ocellar setae lateral to fore ocellus. Antennal segment II not produced on external margin; sensoria on segments III–IV simple and stout; antennal segment I without transverse ridge on dorsal surface. Tergal campaniform sensilla posterior to median setae; posterior margins of tergites I–VIII with broadly-based oval craspedate lobes that fuse at their bases to a continuous craspedum; sternites II–VI posterior margins with slender craspedate lobes, VII with lobes present only laterally. Male macropterous, craspedum on posterior tergites entire with small rounded lobes.