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).