Bregmatothrips Hood

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

Bregmatothrips Hood

Remarks.

This is a common genus of grass-living species in tropical and subtropical areas ( Mound and Marullo 1996; Mound 2011a), with nine species worldwide ( Mound 2011a, ThripsWiki 2013) of these Bregmatothrips bournieri Pelikán is found in Iran ( Pelikán 1988; Bhatti et al. 2009a). This genus is closely related to Sorghothrips by having antennal segment I with paired median dorsoapical setae, and the abdominal tergites with posteromarginal craspeda and the median campaniform sensilla close to the posterior margin ( Masumoto and Okajima 2006).