The Dendrothripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) of Saudi Arabia, with new records, one new species, and revised status of Pseudodendrothrips stuardoi (Moulton)

Iftekhar Rasool; Laurence A Mound; Ahmed M Soliman; Hathal M Aldhafer

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.2

The Dendrothripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) of Saudi Arabia, with new records, one new species, and revised status of Pseudodendrothrips stuardoi (Moulton)

Zootaxa. 2021 Jul 12;4999(3):219-227. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.2.

Authors

Iftekhar Rasool¹, Laurence A Mound², Ahmed M Soliman³, Hathal M Aldhafer⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA.. irasool@ksu.edu.sa.
² CSIRO Australian National Insect Collection, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601.. laurence.mound@csiro.au.
³ Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. Zoology Department, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, PO Box 11884, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. amsoliman@ksu.edu.sa.
⁴ Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA.. hdhafer@ksu.edu.sa.

PMID: 34810490
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.2

Abstract

Two genera Dendrothrips Uzel and Pseudodendrothrips Schmutz are recorded from Saudi Arabia. A key is provided to eight members of Dendrothrips that have antennae with 9-segments and D. saudicus sp. n. is described in this group. P. aegyptiacus (Priesner) and P. stuardoi are newly reported from Saudi Arabia, with P. stuardoi rev. stat. from the leaves of Ficus carica being newly distinguished from P. mori (Niwa) that lives on the leaves of Morus alba. Some published records of P. mori from Mediterranean countries are possibly misidentifications of P. stuardoi.

MeSH terms

Animals
Ficus*
Morus*
Saudi Arabia
Thysanoptera*