Caliothrips Daniel, 1904

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 : 163

Caliothrips Daniel

This genus comprises 23 species worldwide (ThripsWiki 2023), of which 13 are described from the New World and 10 from Africa and Asia (Mound et al. 2011; Mound & Infante 2017). It can be recognized among other genera by a combination of the following characters: reticulated head and pronotum with prominent markings; 8-segmented antennae with forked sense cones; hind coxa with a coiled apodeme; abdominal tergite X with partial split; one segmented tarsus. The genus is new to Saudi Arabia representing five species.