Odontothrips Amyot & Serville
Creators: name: Alavi, Jalil
name: Minaei, Kambiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Odontothrips

description: Key to Odontothrips species from Iran
[*indicates not examined]
1. female.............................................................................................. 2
-. Male.............................................................................................. 10
2. Distal fore tarsal segment with one or two small teeth on inner margin (Fig. 1)..................................... 3
-. Distal fore tarsal segment without tooth on inner margin (Figs 2–3).............................................. 5
3. Fore tibia apex with one small tooth shorter than surrounding setae (Fig. 1).................................. meliloti
-. Fore tibia apex with one or two large teeth as long as or slightly longer than surrounding setae........................ 4
4. Fore tibia apex with one large tooth.................................................................... loti *
-. Fore tibia apex with two large teeth................................................................. biuncus *
5. Fore tibia apex without teeth, with only one stout seta................................................. iranensis *
-. Fore tibia apex with one or two small teeth, sometimes overlooked (Figs 2, 10, 11, 23, 24)........................... 6
6. Antennal segment VIII yellow...................................................................... moritzi
-. Antennal segment VIII dark brown....................................................................... 7
7. Antennal segment II with one inner small tooth distally, bearing a long apical seta (Figs 21–22).............. pitkini sp. n.
-. Antennal segment II without tooth........................................................................ 8
8. Antennal segment IV yellow, sometimes slightly shaded (Fig. 7)........................................ bezii sp. n.
-. Antennal segment IV as dark as following segments.......................................................... 9
9. Fore tibia apex with two equally small teeth (Fig. 3), fore wings brown..................................... confusus
-. Fore tibia apex with one tooth, fore wings pale but shaded at extreme apex.............................. phlomidinus *
10. Genitalia without canaliculi and endothecal spines (Figs 17 and 33)............................................ 11
-. Genitalia with canaliculi and endothecal spines (Figs 4–5).................................................... 12
11. Parameres medially with a dorsal series of ridges (Fig. 33), antennal segment II with one inner small tooth distally.................................................................................................. pitkini sp. n.
-. Parameres sub-basally with one dorsal tooth (Fig. 17), antennal segment II without tooth.................... bezii sp. n.
12. Genitalia with three to four pairs of endothecal spines (Fig. 4)............................................. meliloti
-. Genitalia with one or two pairs of endothecal spines......................................................... 13
13. Genitalia with two pairs of endothecal spines (Fig. 5)................................................... confusus
-. Genitalia with one pair of endothecal spines............................................................... 14
14. Fore tibia apex without tooth..................................................................... iranensis * -. Fore tibia apex with one or two teeth..................................................................... 15
15. Fore tibia apex with one tooth........................................................................ loti *
-. Fore tibia apex with two teeth..................................................................... biuncus *
description: Published as part of Alavi, Jalil & Minaei, Kambiz, 2022, The genus Odontothrips in Iran with two new species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), pp. 379-388 in Zootaxa 5125 (4) on pages 382-383, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/6450819