Neoheegeria gigantea (Priesner)

Haplothrips giganteus Priesner, 1934: 279 .

Described from Egypt on Cistanche lutea [ Scrophulariaceae], a series of both sexes has also been collected from the same plant in Morocco (see Minaei et al. 2007). Minaei and Behmanesh (2012) reported N. gigantea from Iran on the basis of 37 females collected from dead leaves of oak, Quercus sp. These authors considered that these specimens represented an aestivation phase of N. gigantea in leaf litter. Recent collections show that gigantea sometimes has been collected on Astragalus sp. [ Fabaceae] around Fars province (southern Iran). At one site near Shiraz both Stachys sp. and Astragalus sp. were growing close to each other, and sampling from those plants revealed that dalmatica was on the first, but gigantea on the second.