Stenchaetothrips Bagnall

Remarks.

This genus includes 35 species (ThripsWiki 2013) and it is associated with the plant family Poaceae . Stenchaetothrips biformis is widely distributed, and was recorded from Iran by Mirab-balou and Chen (2011a). The genus is included in Thrips genus-group (Mound and Palmer 1981a; Mirab-balou and Chen 2011a) and is closely related to Thrips, but it can be distinguished by the length of ocellar setae II as in the above key, and the metanotum is generally longitudinally striate (Mound and Ng 2009).