Caliothrips helini (Hood)
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Caliothrips helini (Hood) |
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Caliothrips helini (Hood) View in CoL
Hercothrips helini Hood, 1940: 35 View in CoL
An Afrotropical species, described from South Africa, is widespread from Botswana, Madagascar to Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Yemen ( Hood 1940; zur Strassen 1990), and is new to Saudi Arabia. It breeds on leaves of Acalypha fruticosa ( Euphorbiaceae ). Most of the species in Caliothrips have reticles of different shapes occurring laterally on tergites ( Mound & Infante 2017). This species C. helini is characterized with oblique and transverse striae on lateral thirds of abdominal tergites without internal markings. It is distinct from other species of Caliothrips by distinctly convex genae and irregular shapes of sculpture near posterior margin, in contrast to parallel genae and uniform shapes of reticles in most species. However, helini is very similar to another African species, oneillae , the two can be separated by characters given in the key.
Material studied: Al Baha. Thee Ain Village , 23 females, two males, three larvae from Acalypha fruticosa , 7.IV.2019, 15 females, eight males from Acalypha fruticosa , 25.IX.2020, ( BT), Rasool, I .
Hood, J. D. (1940) Two new Heliothripinae (Thysanoptera) from the Transvaal. Journal of the entomological Society of southern Africa, 3, 35 - 41.
Mound, L. A. & Infante, F. (2017) Relationships among Caliothrips species (Thysanoptera: Panchaetothripinae) with one new species from Mexico. Zootaxa, 4291 (2), 384 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4291.2.10
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Caliothrips helini (Hood)
Rasool, Iftekhar, Alattal, Yehya Zaki & Aldhafer, Hathal M. 2023 |
Hercothrips helini
Hood, J. D. 1940: 35 |