Pseudocryptothrips Priesner, 1919

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 : 564

Pseudocryptothrips Priesner

The three species in this genus are structurally similar to the species of Allothrips , and apparently share the same habitat ( Minaei 2011). Two of the species are from tropical countries, but the type species, P. meridionalis Priesner ( Fig. 11 ), was described from Albania and then reported from Iran ( Minaei 2011). It was collected from leaf litter in south of Iran ( Minaei & Alichi 2002), but in the present study it was taken in association with Allothrips bournieri .

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FIGURES 1–12. Fungus feeding thrips species of Iran (1) Hindsiothrips sisakhti (female); (2) Idiothrips bellus (female); (3) Hoplandrothrips bidens (female); (4) Liophloeothrips arganicus (female); (5) Hoplothrips (female); (6) Cephalothrips monilicornis (female); (7) Cephalothrips coxalis (female); (8) Allothrips bournieri (female); (9) Stictothrips farsi sp. n. (female); (10) Stictothrips farsi sp. n. (male); (11) Pseudocryptothrips meridionalis (female); (12) Megathrips flavipes (female).