Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood, 1919

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

Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood

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Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood, 1919: 90 .

This is a WidEspREad aNd a fREquENT pEsT iN cOuNTRiEs iNcludiNg ThE INdiaN sub-cONTiNENT, MalaYsia, JapaN aNd AusTRalia, as WEll as bEiNg aN iNTROducEd pEsT iN IsRaEl aNd FlORida. IT has bEEN REcORdEd damagiNg cROps as VaRiEd as chilliEs, TEa, gRapEs, aNd sTRaWbERRiEs ( MOuNd & PalmER 1981). ThERE is EVidENcE Of mOlEculaR diVERsiTY WiThiN spEciEs (HOddlE et al. 2008, TOda et al. 2014), aNd DickEY et al. (2015) similaRlY disTiNguishEd NiNE cRYpTic spEciEs WiThiN ThE S. dorsalis cOmplEX. ThE spEciEs Was REcORdEd fOR ThE fiRsT TimE fROm IRaN WhEN a laRgE pOpulaTiON Was cOllEcTEd iN spRiNg aNd summER Of 2015 iN ciTRus ORchaRds Of JahROm, FaRs pROViNcE, sOuThERN IRaN (MiNaEi et al. 2016). This spEciEs causEs disTORTiON Of lEaVEs aNd fRuiTs bY puNcTuRiNg EpidERmal cElls (MiNaEi et al. 2016, MiNaEi 2017). REcENT cOllEcTiONs iN sOuThERN IRaN suggEsT ThaT ThE spEciEs is WidElY disTRibuTEd ON VaRiOus plaNTs iN This aREa (MiNaEi uNpublishEd daTa, Jalil AlaVi, pERsONal cOmmuNicaTiON, 2016).

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.