STENUROTHRIPIDAE Bagnall, 1923

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 : 161

STENUROTHRIPIDAE Bagnall

This is one of the small families of Thysanoptera and comprises six species grouped in three genera ( Mound & Marullo 1999). It is here first record for Saudi Arabia. Members of Stenurothripidae can be easily separated from other Thysanoptera families by: broadly conical shaped sense cone on segments III–IV; 9-segmented antennae with transverse rows of microtrichia; ovipositor turned downwards; wings narrow and pointed at the apex.