Haplothrips leptadeniae Priesner

(Figs 33, 60–61)

Haplothrips leptadeniae Priesner, 1936: 92

This Saharo-Arabian species was described from Sudan, and is also known from Egypt. In Arabian Peninsula, it is known from Saudi Arabia, Yemen (zur Strassen 1979, 90), and United Arab Emirates (zur Strassen & van Harten 2008). The species breeds on flowers of Leptadenia pyrotechnica ( Apocynaceae). It is among the members of subgenus Haplothrips with only one sense cone on antennal segment III. The species is close to H. maroccanus in structural details, but can be distinguished by the presence of well-developed fore tarsal tooth in both sexes, compared absence of tarsal tooth in females, and very minute in males of H. maroccanus .

Material examined. Riyadh. four females from Leptadenia pyrotechnica, Al Muzahamiya, 2. x.2019, (BT) ; 19 females, six males, five larvae from Leptadenia sp., Al Aflaj, 14.iv.2019, (BT).