Aeolothrips mongolicus Pelikan, 1985

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, Zootaxa 5306 (2), pp. 151-200 : 157

Aeolothrips mongolicus Pelikan

Aeolothrips mongolicus Pelikan, 1985: 128

This Palearctic species was described from Mongolia (Pelikan 1985), is recorded in China and Iran, ( Alavi & Minaei 2018), and is new to Saudi Arabia. This species is very close to A. sobrinus sharing the same pale ring vein around apex of fore wings. However, it can be seperated by antennal segment III brown at apex, IV entirely brown and rather shorter length of sensorium not reaching to middle to segment IV; sternite VII with well-developed pair of additional setae. In contrast, in A. sobrinus antennal segment III completely yellow, IV variably yellow at base with the sensorium rather long and extending beyond middle of the segment; sternite VII with conspicuous setae close to posterior margin.

Material studied. Al Baha. Baljurashi , one female, 22.ix.2020, ( BT), Rasool, I . Riyadh. Al Oyayna, Salih farm, two females from Sisymbrium irio , 14.iii.2019, ( BT), Aldryhim, Y. N. and Rasool, I; Al Kharj, Wadi Nesah , 29 females from Sisymbrium irio , 24.iv.2018, ( SW); Dhibia, one female from grasses, ( SW), Hathal., et al .