Megathrips Targioni-Tozzetti, 1881

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

Megathrips Targioni-Tozzetti

Of the seven species in this genus, one is described from northern China, one from California, and five from Europe ( ThripsWiki 2019). From Iran, M. flavipes ( Fig. 12 ) was reported (as M. inermis ) from leaf litter ( Minaei & Alichi 2002). This species was described from Crete ( Reuter 1901). During this study several specimens from both sexes were collected from Quercus leaf litter in Fars province of which one female is macropterous (fore wing length 870 microns) ( Fig. 37 ).

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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).

FIGURES 34–44. Fungus feeding thrips of Iran, Structural details (34) Hoplothrips (fore wing); (35) Hoplandrothrips bidens (fore wing); (36) Phlaeothrips coriaceus (fore wing); (37) Megathrips flavipes (fore wing); (38) Megathrips flavipes (pelta with lateral wings); (39) Stictothrips farsi sp. n. (male tergite IX & tube) (ventral view); (40) Stictothrips farsi sp. n. (female meso & metanotum, pelta); (41) Megathrips flavipes (female tube); (42) Stictothrips farsi sp. n. (female tergite IX & tube); (43) Stictothrips farsi sp. n. (male pore plates on sternite VIII); (44) Allothrips bournieri (female tube).