Aeolothrips albithorax Pelikan, 1964

Alavi, Jalil, Awal, Mehdi Modarres, Fekrat, Lida, Minaei, Kambiz & Manzari, Shahab, 2016, One new species and two new records of the genus Aeolothrips from Iran (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Aeolothripidae), ZooKeys 557, pp. 111-120 : 112

Taxon classification Animalia Thysanoptera Aeolothripidae

Aeolothrips albithorax Pelikan, 1964 Figs 1-8

Note.

Described from Tajikistan (central Asia), this is the first report of this species outside its type locality. Collected originally from "low herbages" and " Rumex sp." ( Pelikan 1964), we collected it only on Crambe cordifolia .

Material examined.

IRAN, Khorasan-e shomali province, from flowers of Crambe cordifolia ( Brassicaceae ), all collected by J. Alavi: 11 females, 3 males, Bojnourd, Ghuch-ghaleh village, 16 April 2014; 1 male, Bojnourd, Rakhtian village, 21 April 2014; 1 female, Esfarayen, Pelmis spring, 27 April 2014; 1 female, Bojnourd, Chahar-kharvar village, 4 May 2014.

Diagnosis.

Female distinctly bicolored, lemon yellow prothorax in sharp contrast to the rest of the dark brown body (Fig. 1); legs brown. Antennal segment I yellowish grey, II and III yellow, III rather abruptly brown in distal half (Fig. 2). Submedian pair of posteromarginal setae on pronotum longer and stouter than others (Fig. 3). Fore wings with two brown cross bands, connected with dark posteromarginal vein between them (Fig. 4).

Males generally similar to females but paler and smaller (Figs 5-6). Middle coxae without stridulatory structure (Fig. 7). Abdominal tergites IV–VI without dorsal tubercles. Segment IX without claspers, posterior margin of tergite IX convex medially (Fig. 8).