Chirothrips molestus

Nomenclatural details

Chirothrips molestus Priesner, 1926: 142.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Austria. Widely spread in Eurasia. Recorded from Iran.

References

Priesner H (1926) Die Thysanopteren Europas. Abteilung I-II. Wien: F. Wagner Verlag. pp. 1–342.

zur Strassen R (1960) Key to and catalogue of the known species of Chirothrips Haliday, 1836 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 23: 144–176.

zur Strassen R (1963) Beschreibung neuer und seltener Chirothrips-Arten (Ins., Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 44: 397–416.

Minaei K & Mound LA (2010) Grass-flower thrips of the genus Chirothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), with a key to species from Iran. Zootaxa 2411: 33–43.

Female holotype in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.