Aeolothrips HALIDAY FROM
Creators: name: Mirab-balou, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Aeolothripidae
Aeolothrips

description: KEY TO SPECIES OF THE GENUS AEOLOTHRIPS HALIDAY FROM IRAN   
1. Body mostly yellow …………………………………………………………………….... 2  
– Body color either dark brown or abdomen bicolored......................................................... 7  
2. Head yellow, concolorous with thorax.............................................................................. 3  
– Head brown to dark brown, abdomen bicolored................................................................ 4  
 3. Antennal segment IV yellow at least in the basal half; male without clasper on abdominal segment IX ……………………………………………………… A. montivagus Priesner   
 – Antennal segment IV entirely yellow except at apex; male with clasper on abdominal segment IX ……………………………………………………………..  A. euphorbiae sp. n.    
 4. Abdominal segments I–VIII yellow, IX–X dark brown ……... A. bhattii Alavi et Manzari   
– First abdominal segment brown, other variable …………………………………………... 5  
 5. Antennal segment V shorter than VI–IX ……………………………... A. iranicus Minaei   
– Antennal segment V longer than VI–IX ………………………………………………….. 6  
 6. Abdominal segments V–X mainly brown; antennal segments II and III almost equally white, segment I brown and the distal part of III brown …………………. A. gloriosus Bagnall   
 – Abdominal segments VI–X brown; antennal segments I–III whitish yellow ………………..………………………………………………………………….. A. mongolicus Pelikán   
7. Abdomen bicolored brown and yellow …………………………………………………... 8  
– Abdomen completely brown to dark brown …………………………………………….. 11  
8. Microptera (both sexes usually with wings shorter than thorax width) ………………….. 9  
– Macroptera ………………………………………………………………………………. 10  
 9. Abdominal tergite I with close set of transverse striate; abdominal segments II–III sharply yellow ………………………………………………………….... A. albicinctus Haliday   
 – Abdominal tergite I with few transverse striate; abdominal segment I pale brown, II white ………………………………………………………………………... A. cursor Priesner   
 10. Abdominal segment II and/or III yellow to yellowish brown; fore wings with two separate long brown cross bands …………………………………………….... A. ericae Bagnall   
 – Abdominal segments I–VI yellow, VII–X brown to dark brown; fore wings with rather long spot in posterior margin of distal half and two small spots at the anterior margin... ……………………………………………………………….. A. neyrizi Minaei & Alavi   
 11. Fore wings with longitudinal dark band along the posterior margin, but without a cross band ……………………………………………………………….... A. afghanus Jenser   
– Fore wings with one or two broad dark bands …………………………………………... 12  
12. Fore wings with one broad dark band or with two dark bands that connected to the posterior margin …………………………………………………………………………... 13  
– Fore wings with two transverse dark bands ……………………………………………... 18  
 13. Fore wings with only one dark band, the longitudinal dark area on the posterior margin does not reach the tip of the wing ……………………………….. A. zurstrasseni Minaei   
– Not above characters …………………………………………………………………….. 14  
14. Presence the narrow form of the band along the fore wings posterior margin between the two cross bands ………………………………………………………………………... 15  
– Presence the wider band along the fore wings posterior margin between the two cross bands.. ………………………………………………………………………………………..... 16  
 15. Head with prolongation; all tibiae pale at distal part; male tergites without tubercles and tergite IX without claspers and stout curved setae..…………………. A. versicolor Uzel   
 – Head without prolongation; all tibiae dark brown; male tergites IV–V with paired tubercles and tergite IX with stout curved seta and non-bifurcate clasper …………………… ……………………………………………………………….... A. melaleucus (Haliday)   
 16. All tarsi and tibiae dark brown …………………………………….. A. wittmeri Priesner   
– All tarsi and distal part of all tibiae yellow ……………………………………………... 17  
 17. Middle and hind tibiae uniformly dark; antennal segments I–II dark brown, III yellow with grey ring at apex, IV yellow, light brown in distal half and pedicel, V–IX uniformly brown; male with clasper ………………………………………... A. laurencei Alavi et Manzari   
 – Middle and hind tibiae abruptly yellow at extreme apex; antennal segments III–IX yellowish brown, III and IV yellow in basal part; male without clasper ……. A. eremicola Priesner   
18. Body distinctly bicolored, with prothorax pale yellow and the rest of the dark brown... …………………………………………………………………………………………. 19  
– Body uniformly brown to dark brown …………………………………………………... 20  
 19. Antennal segment I yellowish grey, II and III yellow, III rather abruptly brown in distal half; male abdominal tergites IV–VI without dorsal tubercles, segment IX without claspers, posterior margin of tergite IX convex medially …………………... A. albithorax Pelikan   
 – Antennal segment I dark brown, II yellow in about apical half, III extensively yellow; male tergites IV and V with paired dorsal tubercles, setae at base of claspers on tergite IX shorter than clasper, with stout curved seta lateral to clasper ……………….. A. collaris Priesner   
 20. Antennal segments III–IV pale-yellow (paler at the base); all tarsi and distal part of all tibiae yellow …………………………………………………... A. modestus zur Strassen   
– Antennal segments III–IV usually brown and the mid and hind tibia as well as tarsi brown …………………..…………………………………………………………………...... 21  
 21. Abdominal sternites II–VI with discal setae …………….. A. gundeliae Alavi et Manzari   
– Abdominal sternites II–VI without discal setae ……………………………………….... 22  
 22. Antennal segments VI–IX elongate; segment VI 0.59–0.62 times as length as total length of segments VI–IX; segment VI 1.5–1.6 times as long as width ………………………. …………………………………………………………………..... A. heinzi zur Strassen   
– Antennal segments VI–IX not elongate; segment VI 0.8–1.3 times as length as total length of segments VI–IX; segment VI 1.0–1.2 times as long as width ……………………... 23  
 23. Abdominal sternite VII with setae pair S1 closer to each other than S2 ………………… ………………………………………………………………….... A. tenuicornis Bagnall   
– Abdominal sternite VII with setae pair S1 far from to each other …………………….... 24  
 24. Antennal segment II dark brown, paler distally …………………. A. deserticola Priesner   
– Antennal segment II largely yellow ……………………………………………………... 25  
 25. Male with posteroangular setae longer than paired claspers on abdominal tergite IX ….. …………………………………………………………………... A. fasciatus (Linnaeus)   
 – Male with posteroangular setae shorter than paired claspers on abdominal tergite IX …… ………………………………………………………………….... A. intermedius Bagnall
description: Published as part of Mirab-balou, M., 2019, A key to species of the genus Aeolothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Aeolothripidae) from Iran with description of new species, pp. 1-7 in Far Eastern Entomologist 380 on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.25221/fee.380.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7165041