Scolothrips latipennis Priesner, 1950

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 : 187

Scolothrips latipennis Priesner

Scolothrips latipennis Priesner, 1950b: 54 .

This Mediterranean species is widespread in Western and Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and Mediterranean Levant (zur Strassen & Kuslitzky 2011), and also extends to Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Ukraine. It was collected together with S. longicornis from the same plant. It is similar to S. brevipilis , that is also known from the Arabian Peninsula, but can be distinguished by extensively shaded clavus and light brown abdominal tergites, in contrast to the pale clavus and yellow abdomen of S. brevipilis ( Mound 2011b) .

Material studied. Al Baha. Almendaq, Wadi Turabah , one female from Nicotiana glauca , 6.iv.2019 ; Saudi Arabia, Al Jawf , one female with T. urticae on Melon leaves, 23.x.2021 ; Saudi Arabia, Taberjal , one female, with T. urticae on eggplant leaves, 24.x.2021, ( BT) .