Anaphothrips Uzel, 1895

Rasool, Iftekhar, Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Alattal, Yehya Zaki & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2021, The Anaphothrips genus-group of Thripidae (Thysanoptera) from Saudi Arabia with two new species of Eremiothrips, Journal of Natural History 55 (25 - 26), pp. 1599-1617 : 1601

Anaphothrips Uzel

Anaphothrips is the largest genus in the Anaphothrips genus-group, and comprises 86 extant species worldwide (ThripsWiki 2021), with about half endemic to the Australian continent ( Mound and Masumoto 2009). Members of this genus are generally associated with Poaceae , including agricultural crops of this family, but also occur on a wide range of other shrubs and herbs ( Mound and Masumoto 2009). Some species, such as An. sudanensis Trybom and An. obscurus (Muller) , are highly polyphagous and have been associated with a variety of plant families in Europe and the Middle East (zur Strassen 2003).

Key to the species of Anaphothrips from Saudi Arabia

1. Body completely yellow except micropterous female with head and abdominal segments IX–X light brown ( Figures 17–20 ); fore wing uniformly pale ( Figure 20 ); antennal segments I–II pale ( Figure 11 ).......................................................................................... graminum

- Body strongly bicoloured; head, pterothorax, abdominal segments I–II and VII–X dark brown; pronotum, legs and abdominal segments III–VI yellow ( Figure 21 ); fore wing with sub-basal longitudinal dark band ( Figure 21 ); antennal segments I–II brown ( Figure 12 ) ....................................................................................................................................................... sudanensis

Figures

Figures 17–21. Anaphothrips graminum Priesner: micropterous (17) female, (18) male; macropterous (19) male, (20) female. (21) An. sudanensis Trybom.

Figures 7–16. Anaphothrips graminum Priesner: (7) head and pronotum, (9) pterothorax, (11) antenna. Tergites VIII–X: (13) micropterous male, (14) macropterous male. Sternites III–VIII: (15) micropterous male, (16) macropterous male. An. sudanensis Trybom: (8) head and pronotum, (10) pterothorax, (12) antenna.