Ceratothripoides claratris (Shumsher)

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

Ceratothripoides claratris (Shumsher)

Taeniothrips claratris Shumsher, 1946: 178

This species was described from India ( Shumsher 1946), and is widespread from Thailand ( Murai 2000) to Phillipines (Bhatti 1990). It is considered an economicaly important pest of Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae and a vector of plant diseases. Individuals of C. claratris can be distinguished from C. cameroni by extensively shaded brown legs and brown antennal segment V, in contrast to yellow legs and antennal segment V ( Mound & Nickle 2009).

Material studied. Riyadh. Al-Deri’yya, Bodha park, one female from Cucurbits , 2.iv.2019, ( BT), Rasool, I. Al Baha. Three females from grasses, ( BT), Rasool, I and Habib, M .