Four genera and five species of Idolothripinae are recorded in Iran:
Allothrips Hood, Compsothrips Reuter and Pseudocryptothrips Priesner each
with one species, and Megathrips Targioni-Tozzetti with 2 species. In this
paper, the genus Nesothrips Kirkaldy, with one species N. brevicollis (Bagnall)
collected on grasses in Marivan, Kurdistan Province, is recorded in Iran for the
first time. A key is provided to distinguish five Idolothripine genera from Iran.
Diagnostic morphological characters and geographical distribution of the
newly recorded species are briefly discussed.
