Mycterothrips Trybom, 1910

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 : 179

Mycterothrips Trybom

This genus encompasses 37 species worldwide, mainly from Old World tropics (ThripsWiki 2023). Masumoto and Okajima (2006) redefined the genus and constructed a key to 27 species. Only one species of the genus, M. acaciae , has been recorded from Arabian Peninsula ( Yemen) (zur Strassen 1990), but two species are here newly recorded from Saudi Arabia, including one new species. The genus Mycterothrips can be distinguished from closely related genera by the combination of characters: meso and metasternal furca with spinula, complete posteromarginal comb on abdominal tergite VIII; lateral thirds of abdominal tergites usually fully covered with rows of microtrichia, if without, often with small scattered dentate microtrichia; ocellar setae I usually present; males without sternal pore plates; antennal segment VI is often indicated sexual dimorphism, in some species this segment much longer than that of female.