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Published: 2020-05-08
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Key to world Stictothrips species with description of a new species from Iran (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)

Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
CSIRO Australian National Insect Collection, PO Box 1700, ACT 2601, Australia.
Thysanoptera new species fungus-feeding thrips

Abstract

An illustrated key is provided to distinguish seven species of the genus Stictothrips Hood. Information is provided concerning the distribution and variation among these fungus-feeding thrips, and a new species of the genus, S. denaeus sp. n., is described from both sexes collected in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, south-west of Iran.

 

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