Microcephalothrips Bagnall

Mirab-balou, Majid, Minaei, Kambiz & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2013, An illustrated key to the genera of Thripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Iran, ZooKeys 317, pp. 27-52 : 35

Microcephalothrips Bagnall

Remarks.

This monobasic genus is included in Thrips genus-group ( Mound and Palmer 1981a; Mirab-balou and Chen 2011a), from which it can be distinguished by the key above. Microcephalothrips abdominalis lives in the flowers of various Asteraceae , particularly sunflower, Helianthus annuus ( Palmer 1992; Mound and Marullo 1996). The macropterous morph is common in Iran. Recently one micropterous male was collected on grasses from Ilam Province, and is firstly recorded of micropterous morph for Iran.