Chirothrips pretorianus Hood, 1953

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 : 173

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B368BB44-3731-4DC2-B281-C586FC692CEB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8058809

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1F125A29-FFF7-FFEA-FF5D-3AB1017CCB18

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scientific name

Chirothrips pretorianus Hood
status

 

Chirothrips pretorianus Hood View in CoL

Chirothrips pretorianus Hood, 1953: 110 View in CoL .

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 View in CoL , 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 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Thysanoptera

Family

Thripidae

Genus

Chirothrips

Loc

Chirothrips pretorianus Hood

Rasool, Iftekhar, Alattal, Yehya Zaki & Aldhafer, Hathal M. 2023
2023
Loc

Chirothrips pretorianus

Hood, J. D. 1953: 110
1953
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