Bregmatothrips venustus Hood, 1912

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 : 171

Bregmatothrips venustus Hood

Bregmatothrips venustus Hood, 1912: 67

This Nearctic species was described from Mexico and is widespread from central to southern America ( Cuba, Galapagos Islands, Peru) ( Hood 1912). The species is widespread in Saudi Arabia, breeding on grasses. It is similar to B. piceus from which it is distinguished by the female being brown and macropterous and the male bicolored and micropterous (in contrast both sexes in B. piceus are macropterous and uniformly brown ( Mound 2011a).

Material studied. Al Baha. Thee Ain Village , three females, eight males from Chloris barbata , 7.iv.2019 , seven females, 22 males from Chloris barbata , 25.ix.2020, BT; Shada Al Aala , three females from Aerva javanica , 8.iv.2019 , BT; Baljurashi , two females, 22.ix.2020 , BT; Raghadan park, two females Pennisetum sp. BT; Al Baha city, two females from Datura innoxia , 23.ix.2020 , BT; Qilwah , two females from Cenchrus pennisetiformis , 25.ix.2019 , BT; Shada Al Ala , five females, 22 males from Cenchrus sp. , 26.ix.2019 ; Riyadh. KSU, two females, one male, 21.i.2019 , Sucking, Jawad H. Mirza; Al-Deri’yya, one female from Pennisctum setaceum , 23.i.2019, BT; Zulfi , one male, 27.iii.2019 , BT; Al Dawadmi , eight females, 13 males from Phalaris minor , 13.iii.2020 , BT; Sajir , one female from Eucliptus sp; Bradiya, two females from Lolium rigidum , 27.iii.2019 , BT, Aldryhim, Y. N. and Rasool, I; Dirab, 20 females, 20 males 11 larvae from Poaceae , 2.vi.2020, SW, Soliman, A.