Liophloeothrips Priesner, 1919

Hakimara, Mahsa, Minaei, Kambiz, Sadeghi, Saber & Mound, Laurence, 2019, Fungus-feeding thrips in Iran with a new species of Stictothrips (Thysanoptera Phlaeothripidae), Zootaxa 4652 (3), pp. 557-567 : 564

Liophloeothrips Priesner

Of the 17 species listed in this genus ( ThripsWiki 2019) 13 are known only from India ( Tyagi & Kumar 2011). However, the type species, L. glaber , and two other species, L. hungaricus and L. pulchrisetis , are described from Europe. From Iran, L. hungaricus has been recorded without any information concerning the locality, date of collection, or number of specimens ( Mortazaviha 1995), although this species is possibly associated with the bark of certain Salicaceae ( Minaei & Mound 2014) . The only other species in this genus, L. arjanicus ( Fig. 4 ), was described from both sexes extracted from leaf litter using a Berlese funnel, and is possibly part of the community of fungus-feeding litter thrips ( Hakimara et al. 2019).

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FIGURES 1–12. Fungus feeding thrips species of Iran (1) Hindsiothrips sisakhti (female); (2) Idiothrips bellus (female); (3) Hoplandrothrips bidens (female); (4) Liophloeothrips arganicus (female); (5) Hoplothrips (female); (6) Cephalothrips monilicornis (female); (7) Cephalothrips coxalis (female); (8) Allothrips bournieri (female); (9) Stictothrips farsi sp. n. (female); (10) Stictothrips farsi sp. n. (male); (11) Pseudocryptothrips meridionalis (female); (12) Megathrips flavipes (female).