Nesothrips Kirkaldy, 1907

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 : 566

Nesothrips Kirkaldy

This genus comprises about 30 species from the Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, of which 16 species are from Australia and New Zealand ( Eow et al. 2014). These species are collected mainly from leaf litter, grass or dead twigs. Only N. brevicollis Bagnall is recorded from Iran, collected on grass from Kurdistan province, west of Iran ( Mirab-balou 2014).