Scirtothrips mangiferae Priesner, 1932

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 : 186

Scirtothrips mangiferae Priesner

Scirtothrips mangiferae Priesner, 1932: 143

This is a Saharo Arabian species that was first described from Egypt ( Priesner 1932b). However, it is widespread from North Africa to Middle east and Pakistan. In Saudi Arabia, it breeds largely on Conocarpus erectus and Mangifera indica . It is similar to S. fulleri , S. inermis and S. spinosus in having 4 pairs of setae laterally on the tergal microtrichial fields, but S. mangiferae can be distinguished from S. fulleri and S. inermis by wavy fore wing posteromarginal cilia (in contrast to straight) and from S. spinosus by posteromarginal pronotal setae no more than 0.4 as long as median length of pronotum (in contrast to more than 0.6 times as long median length of pronotum).

Material studied. Al Baha. Biljurashi, 14 females from Ziziphus spina, (BT) ; Aqiq , two females, one male from Pepper, ( BT) . Riyadh. Thadiq , six females, two males from Ricinus communis , 28.iii.2019, ( BT), Aldryhim, Y. N. KSU, 80 females, six males from Conocarpus sp. , 24.ii.2020, ( BT); Al Dawadmi, Ash-shura, three females from Prosopis sp. , 13.iii.2020; Badidah, four females from Ricinus communis , seven females from grapes, 28.vi.2020, ( SW), Soliman, A .