Thrips vulgatissimus Haliday, 1836

Mirab-balou, M., 2018, An updated checklist of Iranian thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera), Far Eastern Entomologist 361, pp. 12-36 : 28

211. Thrips vulgatissimus Haliday, 1836

DISTRIBUTION. Iran (Tehran, Markazi, Hamedan, Zanjan, Khorasan-e-homali, Kermanshah, Ilam *, Lorestan *) ; China, New Zealand, Europe, North America .

II. SUBORDER TUBULIFERA HALIDAY, 1836

The suborder Tubulifera consists of about 3600 species placed in the single family

Phlaeothripidae Uzel, 1895 (Mound, 2011a; ThripsWiki, 2018), of which 59 species in 22

genera has been recorded in Iran belonging to two subfamilies: Idolothripinae and

Phlaeothripinae. At least half of the species are fungus-feeders, mostly on hyphae but with one major group, the Idolothripinae , feeding on spores. More than one-third of the species are phytophagous, including the Haplothrips lineage in flowers, and the much larger

Liothrips lineage on leaves. Some leaf-feeding species induce galls on their host plants

(Mound, 1994). Still a few species are predatory on scale insects and mites (Reyes, 1994)

and the members of one small lineage feed on mosses (Mound, 1989). However, only a few species of the Phlaeothripidae are considered as crop pests.

II.1. SUBFAMILY IDOLOTHRIPINAE BAGNALL, 1908

Genus Allothrips Hood, 1908