the genus sericothrips haliday is reported for the first time from iran, based on the materials collected on lotus sp. and identified as s. bicornis (karny). the illustrations are provided for the new record. this is the third genus of subfamily sericothripinae in iran. the number of thysanoptera genera in accordance with recent changes in iran as well as host association of iranian sericothrip...

Consider a sequence of n independent observations from a population of increasing size αi, i = 1,2,... and an absolutely continuous initial distribution function. The distribution of the kth record value is represented as a countable mixture, with mixing the distribution of the kth record time and mixed the distribution of the nth order statistic. Precisely, the distribution function and (pow...