Fungus-feeding thrips in Iran with a new species of Stictothrips (Thysanoptera Phlaeothripidae) Author Hakimara, Mahsa Author Minaei, Kambiz Author Sadeghi, Saber Author Mound, Laurence text Zootaxa 2019 2019-08-09 4652 3 557 567 journal article 25527 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.11 1b360105-050e-4952-b964-04d9d17c2aa1 1175-5326 3364944 6127D0F2-D4B2-4A6B-8E8A-B816B9CEAB0F Idiothrips Faure This genus comprises only two species which are reported from Africa and Asia ( ThripsWiki 2019 ). Faure (1933) described I. bellus from South Africa , and this species was subsequently reported from India (Ananthakrishnan 1964) and then from Kerman province , southern Iran ( Kheyrandish Koshkoei 2000 ). Minaei (2013) recorded I. bellus ( Fig. 2 ) in Fars province , and one female has been collected from leaf litter of Quercus sp. The only other species in the genus, I. maghrebinus remains known from a single female taken in flowers of Phillyrea angustifolia at Asni, Morocco (zur Strassen 1968 ).