Odontothrips Amyot & Serville

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 : 36

Odontothrips Amyot & Serville

Remarks.

The 31 species of this genus ( ThripsWiki 2013) are typical flower-living thrips, and most are associated with plants of the family Fabaceae . They can cause slight damage to the flowers, but only Odontothrips confusus is an important pest ( Pitkin 1972). Megalurothrips peculiaris which sensorium base is similar to Odontothrips , and recorded from India and Bangladesh. This genus is included in the Megalurothrips genus-group ( Mound and Palmer 1981a) and four species have been recorded from Iran ( Mirab-balou and Chen 2011b). Odontothrips confusus Priesner is widely distributed in Iran, and populations are sometimes high on alfalfa, Medicago sativa .