Haplothrips cahirensis (Trybom)

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 : 441

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.15352158
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D3455B3C-FF8C-BA72-FF4D-A92EFB53F957
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scientific name	Haplothrips cahirensis (Trybom)
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Haplothrips cahirensis (Trybom) View in CoL

( Figs 8 View FIGURES 2–11 , 55 View FIGURES 51–59 )

Anthothrips cahirensis Trybom, 1911: 69 View in CoL

This old-world Afrotropical species was described from Egypt, and is widespread in Africa ( Algeria, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda) and Arabian Peninsula ( Table 1 View TABLE 1 ) (zur Strassen 1979; zur Strassen & van Harten 2006). The species was collected breeding on leaves of Ziziphus spina-christi View in CoL . It is very similar to H. sorghi View in CoL in general appearance and structural details. However, it can be distinguished by the characters in the key.

Material examined. Riyadh. six females, two males from Ziziphus sp. , Sudus, 13.iii.2019, (BT) ; 20 females, eight males from Ziziphus sp. , Al ghat, 27.iii.2019, (BT), Yousif N. Aldryhim and Rasool, I.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Thysanoptera
Family	Phlaeothripidae
Genus	Haplothrips