Megalurothrips Bagnall, 1915

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 : 179

Megalurothrips Bagnall

This old World genus comprises 14 species worldwide (ThripsWiki 2023), with M. sjostedti and M. usitatus known from Arabian Peninsula (zur Strassen 1990; zur Strassen & van Harten 2008). The genus Megalurothrips can be distinguished from the closely related genera Odontothrips and Odontothripiella by the following: lack of tubercles on fore tibia, base of sensorium on antennal segment VI longer than wide and more or less 0.3 as long as length of sensorium. In contrast, Odontothripiella and Odontothrips have two claw-like tubercles at the apex of foretibia (rarely one) and a longer base to the sensorium on antennal segment VI, about 0.7 times as long as length of sensorium.