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Mirab-Balou M. - Chen X. -x: Description of a new species of Haplothrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) from Iran
Natura Somogyiensis 27 45-50 Kaposvár, 2015 Description of a new species of Haplothrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) from Iran Majid Mirab-Balou1* & Xue-xin Chen2 1 Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Ilam University, 69315-516, Ilam, Iran institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, China *Corresponding author: E-mail: majid.mirab@gmail.com Mirab-Balou, M. & Chen, X.,-x.: Description of a new species of Haplothrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) from Iran. Abstract: Haplothrips rasouliani sp. n. (Phlaeothripidae: Phlaeothripinae) is described and illustrated from Iran. Keywords: Thysanoptera, Haplothrips, new species, Iran. Introduction About 6000 species of Thysanoptera are known worldwide. These are classified into two suborders Terebrantia and Tubulifera, comprising nine families, of which 8 families belong to Terebrantia and 1 family belongs to Tubulifera (see Mirab-Balou et al. 2011: 720-721). The suborder Tubulifera consists of about 3500 species in 450 genera placed in the single family Phlaeothripidae (Thripswiki 2015), of which 48 species in 20 genera have been recorded in Iran (Mirab-Balou 2013). At least half the species are fungus- feeders, mostly on hyphae but with one major group, the Idolothripinae, feeding on spores. More than one-third of the species are phytophagous, including the Haplothrips lineage in flowers, and the much larger Liothrips lineage on leaves. Some leaf-feeding species induce galls on their host plants (Mound 1994). A few species are predatory on scale insects and mites (Palmer & Mound 1991, Reyes 1994) and the members of one small lineage feed on mosses (Mound 1989). However, only a few species of the Phlaeothripidae are considered as crop pests. Pest Phlaeothripidae are primarily members of Haplothrips and are reported on various crops in different parts of the world (Mound & Marullo 1996). In Iran, most of the species that have been recorded are from the tribe Haplothripini. Among them, Haplothrips Amyot & Serville, 1843 with 24 species have a diversity of biology, with ten described species apparently predatory and others phytophagous, particularly in the flowers of Asteraceae and Poaceae (Minaei & Mound 2008). In the present paper, a new species is described and illustrated from Iran.
