Iridothrips kratochvili (Pelikan)

Taeniothrips kratochvili Pelikan, 1947: 12 .

Pelikanothrips kratochvili (Pelikan) Bhatti, 1978: 189 .

This species was collected by Pelikan in the former Czechoslovakia living on an aquatic grass-like plant, Carex, and zur Strassen (2003) also records it on this plant from Poland, Netherlands and northern Germany. It is a typical Iridothrips with head rather long and projecting, the pronotum without median discal setae, the fore wing clavus with 4 pairs of veinal setae. Within the genus it is distinguished by the pronotum without long anteroangular setae, and tergite VIII with a complete comb. Bhatti (1978) indicated that this species varied in the number of pronotal posteromarginal setae and also the position of the mesonotal median setae. The genus Pelikanothrips was distinguished from Iridothrips by zur Strassen (2003) solely on the shape of the antennal sense cones (see discussed above).