Stenchaetothrips Bagnall

Mirab-balou, Majid, Minaei, Kambiz & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2013, An illustrated key to the genera of Thripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Iran, ZooKeys 317, pp. 27-52 : 38

Stenchaetothrips Bagnall

Remarks.

This genus includes 35 species ( ThripsWiki 2013) and it is associated with the plant family Poaceae . Stenchaetothrips biformis is widely distributed, and was recorded from Iran by Mirab-balou and Chen (2011a). The genus is included in Thrips genus-group ( Mound and Palmer 1981a; Mirab-balou and Chen 2011a) and is closely related to Thrips , but it can be distinguished by the length of ocellar setae II as in the above key, and the metanotum is generally longitudinally striate ( Mound and Ng 2009).