Parascolothrips Mound

Remarks.

This monobasic genus with one predatory species, Parascolothrips priesneri Mound, has been reported from Iraq (Mound 1967, ThripsWiki 2013). Mound (1967) described the species from Iraq with three pairs of posteromarginal setae on sternites II–VI, but in Iranian specimens, there are three pairs of setae on sternite II and four pairs on sternites III–VI .