Anascirtothrips arorai Bhatti, 1961

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 : 169

Anascirtothrips arorai Bhatti

Anascirtothrips arorai Bhatti, 1961: 26

This Oriental species was described from India, is widespread from Bangladesh (zur Strassen & van Harten 2008) to China ( Mirab-balou et al. 2011), Taiwan and Australia (Mound & Wang 2000), and is also known from Israel (zur Strassen & Kuslitzky 2007). It is very similar to A. discordiae but can be distinguished by the rather short michrotrichia on abdominal sternite VI between S1 setae (0.3 times as long as length of S1 setae) and very weak mesosternal spinula (in contrast to long michrotrichia between S1 setae at sternite VI (more than 0.5 times as long as S1 setae length), mesosternal endofurca absent (Mound & Wang 2000).

Material studied. Al Baha. Thee Ain Village , one female from Cenchrus echinatus , 7.iv.2019, ( BT) ; Riyadh. Dirab , KSU farm, one male from Ficus sp. , 23.viii.2020, ( BT) .