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).