Chirothrips Haliday

Mirab-balou, Majid, Minaei, Kambiz & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2013, An illustrated key to the genera of Thripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Iran, ZooKeys 317, pp. 27-52 : 32

Chirothrips Haliday

Remarks.

Species of this genus breed only in the flowers of grasses and are readily recognized from the shape of the head, pronotum, fore legs and antennae. This genus includes 53 species in the world ( ThripsWiki 2013). Six species in Chirothrips and two species in Agrostothrips Hood have been reported from Iran ( Bhatti et al. 2009a) but subsquentley Minaei and Mound (2010) considered Agrostothrips as a synonym of Chirothrips and five species and one species-group (manicatus group) have been recognized in this country. A key also to the Chirothrips species from Iran was given by Minaei and Mound (2010).