Tenothrips Bhatti

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 : 38

Tenothrips Bhatti

Remarks.

This genus includes 19 flower-living species in the world ( ThripsWiki 2013), of which Tenothrips frici (Uzel), is widespread around the world in warm temperate areas ( Mound and Marullo 1996; Mirab-balou and Tong 2013). Bhatti (2003) reviewed this genus, listing 19 species. Four species are reported from Iran ( Bhatti et al. 2009a), especially on the plant family Asteraceae , and Tenothrips frici is widely distributed in this country.