Mycterothrips, Trybom, 1910

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 : 180

Key to species of Mycterothrips from Arabian Peninsula

1. Abdominal sternites without discal setae; tergites with or without weak irregular microtrichia laterally, IX without small comb of microtrichia at middle of posterior margin; mouth cone short, conical shaped, not reaching posterior margin of pronotum............................................................................................ tschirkunae

- Abdominal sternites with discal setae; tergites covered with numerous ciliate microtrichia laterally, IX with comb of small microtrichia at middle of posterior margin; mouth cone long and slender, reaching to atleast mesonotum................ 2

2. Antennal segment II without microtrichial rows on dorsal surface; mouth cone extending across the mesonotum; ocellar pair III setae small, as long as distance between hind ocelli..................................................... acaciae

- Antennal segment II with microtrichial rows on dorsal surface; mouth cone reaching to only anterior margin of mesonotum; ocellar pair III setae elongate, longer than the distance between hind ocelli............................. arabicus sp. n.