Chirothrips molestus Priesner

Minaei, Kambiz & Mound, Laurence, 2010, Grass-flower thrips of the genus Chirothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), with a key to species from Iran, Zootaxa 2411, pp. 33-43 : 41-42

Chirothrips molestus Priesner

Chirothrips molestus Priesner, 1926: 142 .

Reported as a widespread “ Euro-Siberian species” by zur Strassen (2003a), this species was recorded from wheat and barley in Iran, Golestan Province by Alavi (2000) and from Bojnourd by Alavi & Kamali (2003) on Cynodon dactylon .

Diagnosis: Body colour brown, tarsi yellow, forewing and clavus shaded. Head distinctly produced in front of eyes ( Fig. 9 ); vertex with three to four pairs of setae, ocellar setae posterolateral to fore ocellus. Antennal segment II external margin almost straight, but apex rounded and at an angle, with small subterminal seta; sensoria on segments III–IV simple and stout; antennal segment I with transverse ridge on dorsal surface. Tergal campaniform sensilla anterior to median setae; posterior margins of tergites with no craspedum but II–VI with widely-spaced fringe of microtrichia (Fig. 24); sternites III–IV posterior margins with small tubercles laterally. Male apterous, smaller than female.

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 11. Chirothrips heads. (7) kurdistanus. (8) pallidicornis. (9) molestus. (10) manicatus [A. C. T.]. (11) manicatus [England].