Drepanothrips reuteri Uzel, 1895

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 : 289

Drepanothrips reuteri Uzel

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Drepanothrips reuteri Uzel, 1895: 213 .

ThE ONlY spEciEs iN ThE gENus Drepanothrips has bEEN REcORdEd fROm EuROpE, JapaN aNd NORTh AmERica. IT is kNOWN as a pEsT Of gRapEViNE lEaVEs iN EuROpE aNd AmERica, alThOugh NOT iN JapaN ( MasumOTO & OkaJima 2007). IN BRiTaiN iT liVEs ON ThE lEaVEs Of Corylus aNd Quercus TREEs (MOuNd et al. 1976), aNd PalmER (1986) REcORdEd paRTiculaRlY laRgE pOpulaTiONs high iN ThE caNOpY Of Quercus TREEs dEspiTE This ThRips bEiNg TakEN RaRElY ON lOWER bRaNchEs. ThE spEciEs is uNiquE amONg ThE Scirtothrips gENus-gROup iN haViNg ThE ThREE TERmiNal aNTENNal sEgmENTs fusEd TO pROducE a siX-sEgmENTEd cONdiTiON ( Fig. 3 ), buT ThE malE bEaRs a paiR Of cONspicuOus dREpaNaE laTERallY ON ThE NiNTh TERgiTE ( Fig. 2 ) similaR TO ThOsE fOuNd ON malEs Of Scirtothrips . D. reuteri is REcORdEd fROm IRaN as a pEsT Of gRapE ViNE iN QazViN (QazViN pROViNcE) (Esmaili 1983), aNd subsEquENTlY iT Was REcORdEd ON This plaNT fROm BOJNOuRd REgiON (AlaVi & Kamil 1995, 2003), aNd IsfahaN (ETEbaRi & HEsami 2002). ThE spEciEs is alsO REcORdEd fROm NORTh Of IRaN, buT WiThOuT aNY hOsT daTa (ChERaghiaN & BaRimaNi VaRaNdi 2000). ThE aVailablE daTa iNdicaTE ThaT D. reuteri is NOT disTRibuTEd iN sOuThERN IRaN, dEspiTE ThE EXpaNsiON Of gRapE culTiVaTiON iN sOmE paRTs Of This aREa.

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.