Chirothrips maximi Ananthakrishnan

Remarks.

This speciesis here recorded from Iran for the first time, based on one apterous male.Hamedan province: Hamedan, Qahavand, from Salvia nemorosa ( Lamiaceae), 20.viii.2010, coll. M. Mirab-balou (in ZJUH). The male of this speciesis easily distinguished from other species of Chirothrips by having small pore plates on abdominal sternite III and IV.