Franklinothrips Back, 1912

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 : 158

Franklinothrips Back

This pantropical genus comprises 17 species worldwide (ThripsWiki 2023), but has been known in Arabian Peninsula only from Yemen (zur Strassen, 1990). The species are sexually dimorphic, females can be recognized by their large size with abdominal segments I–II constricted as in many hymenopterans; antennal segments III–IV remarkably long and slender with the sensorium twisting along the length of segment; head and prothorax without long setae; head retracted into prothorax; maxillary palp 3-segmented.