Gigantothrips Zimmermann, 1900

Rasool, Iftekhar, Alattal, Yehya Zaki, Ansi, Amin Al & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2025, The Suborder Tubulifera (Thysanoptera) of Saudi Arabia with one new species, new records and checklist to the Arabian Peninsula species, Zootaxa 5627 (3), pp. 431-454 : 436

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5627.3.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5E27799C-E101-4763-87CB-5035F6779C82
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15352146
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D3455B3C-FF83-BA7D-FF4D-AF06FAAEFBBF
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Gigantothrips Zimmermann
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This genus of gall inducing species comprises 22 Old-world species found in Asia (ThripsWiki 2023), and no member of the genus was known previously from Arabian Peninsula. It is a member of Liothrips -lineage of thrips based on these characters: leaf feeding and gall inducing habits, one sense cone on antennal segment III and three on segment IV; parallel wings with duplicated cilia, long tube and absence of basantra ( Mound & Marullo 1996).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Thysanoptera
Family	Phlaeothripidae

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