Bregmatothrips Hood, 1912

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 : 171

Bregmatothrips Hood

This grass living genus comprises eleven species worldwide ( Rachana & Varatharajan 2017), of which 10 were described from the Old World, and B. venustus from central America. In Arabian Peninsula, B. dimorphus is known from Yemen (zur Strassen 2004) and UAE (zur Strassen & van Harten 2008). The genus can be recognized by: head with three pairs of ocellar setae; maxillary palps 2 or 3-segmented; antennae 7–8 segmented, segment I with 1–2 dorsal apical setae, III–IV with simple or forked sense cones; meso and meta furcae without spinula; abdominal tergites I–VIII with CPS close to posterior margin; tergites with teeth, crespeda or continuous flange along posterior margin.