Pseudodendrothrips Schmutz

Alavi, Jalil, Minaei, Kambiz & Fekrat, Lida, 2014, The Iranian Dendrothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with description of a new genus and species, Zootaxa 3860 (5), pp. 479-486 : 484

Pseudodendrothrips Schmutz

( Figs 20–23 )

Pseudodendrothrips Schmutz, 1913: 998 . Type species Pseudodendrothrips ornatissimus Schmutz

The distributions of the 17 Old World species of this genus are as follows: Australia (three), Oriental (eleven), Afrotropical (two), Mediterranean (one) ( Mound & Tree 2007). Mound & Tree (2007) arranged these 17 species into four groups, based on the following four characters: colour of body, head, fore wings, number of antennal segments.

The widespread minor pest of mulberry, P. m o r i, is the only species that has previously been recorded in Iran. P. bhattii is here newly recorded from Iran, and is considered a pest of Morus trees in Southeast Asia. This species is also recorded from Australia, Japan and Pakistan ( Mound 1999; Akram et al. 2003).

Figures

FIGURES 20 – 23. Pseudodendrothrips species from Iran. Female: (20) Head & pronotum of P. bhattii. (21 – 23) P. mori: (21) Head & pronotum, (22) Hind tibia & tarsus, (23) Fore wing.