Chirothrips Haliday, 1836

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 : 172

Chirothrips Haliday

This genus is widespread in the Old World and comprises 42 grass-lliving species (ThripsWiki 2023).Although, five species ( C. africanus , C. manicatus , C. meridionalis , C. cypriotes and C. pretorianus ) were reported from Arabian Peninsula (zur Strassen 1990; Mirab-balou et al. 2014), no Chirothrips species has previously been reported from Saudi Arabia. The genus can be recognized by the combination of characters: head with 2–6 pairs of short bristlelike or stout setae; antennal segment II usually projected laterally; III–IV with simple or forked sense cone on IV; pronotum trapezoidal with two pairs of posteroangular setae. Male normally micropterous with sternal pore plates ( Minaei & Mound 2010).