Scirtothrips mangiferae Priesner

Minaei, Kambiz & Mound, Laurence, 2018, Scirtothrips genus-group in Iran with an unusual new species of Scirtothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), Zootaxa 4394 (2), pp. 288-294 : 292

Scirtothrips mangiferae Priesner

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Scirtothrips mangiferae Priesner, 1932: 143 .

DEscRibEd fROm AfRica (PRiEsNER 1932) aNd REcORdEd fROm ThE EasTERN MEdiTERRaNEaN aREa aNd GabON (zuR STRassEN 2003), spEcimENs Of This spEciEs haVE alsO bEEN sEEN fROm MOROccO aNd sOuThERN INdia (iN ANIC). IN IRaN ThE spEciEs Was REcORdEd fROm siRis ( Albizia lebbek ) aNd ciTRus fROm AhWaz (sOuThERN IRaN) fOR ThE fiRsT TimE (MOhisENi et al. 1998), aNd subsEquENTlY fROm VaRiOus plaNT spEciEs aROuNd IRaN (MiNaEi et al. 2002; ETEbaRi & HEsami 2002; BaghERi et al. 2005). ThERE is NO aNY EVidENcE ThaT This spEciEs is a pEsT iN IRaN (MiNaEi et al. 2016), aNd ThE sTaTEmENT bY MOuNd aNd STillER (2011) ThaT S. mangiferae “sEEms TO bE paRTiculaRlY assOciaTEd WiTh ThE YOuNg lEaVEs Of maNgO” is NOT suppORTEd bY mORE REcENT EVidENcE Of pOlYphagY.

Figures

FIGURES 1–5. Drepanothrips reuteri (1) Female; (2) Drepanae (male); (3) Antenna. Scirtothrips dorsalis (4) Head and pronotum.S. mangiferae (5) Abdominal tergites VI–IX.