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Chirothrips pretorianus Hood 1953

  • 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. Department of Plant Protection, Chair of Engineer Abdullah Ahmad Bagshan for Bee Research, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. & irasool @ ksu. edu. sa; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8955 - 2340;
  • 2. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. Department of Plant Protection, Chair of Engineer Abdullah Ahmad Bagshan for Bee Research, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA.
  • 3. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. Department of Plant Protection, Chair of Engineer Abdullah Ahmad Bagshan for Bee Research, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. & hdhafer @ ksu. edu. sa, http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4911 - 2332

Description

Chirothrips pretorianus Hood

Chirothrips pretorianus Hood, 1953: 110.

Described from South Africa, this species is also known from Kenya and Yemen (zur Strassan 1990) and is new Saudi Arabia. This species is very similar to another African species, C. egregius, from which it is distinguished by less elongate anterior margin of head in front of eyes from 5–14 µm (in contrast to 19–34 µm) (zur Strassen 1960).

Material studied. Al Baha. Shada Al Aala, one female from Conyza bonariensis, 8.iv.2019, Rasool, I.

Notes

Published as part of Rasool, Iftekhar, Alattal, Yehya Zaki & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2023, Faunistic inventory, identification keys and zoogeographical analysis of the Thysanoptera-Terebrantia of Saudi Arabia, including two new species, pp. 151-200 in Zootaxa 5306 (2) on page 173, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8058749

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2019-04-08
Verbatim event date
2019-04-08
Scientific name authorship
Hood
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Thysanoptera
Family
Thripidae
Genus
Chirothrips
Species
pretorianus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chirothrips pretorianus Hood, 1953 sec. Rasool, Alattal & Aldhafer, 2023

References

  • Hood, J. D. (1953) Two new species of Chirothrips new to Africa (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaine, 47, 108 - 119.