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 .