PANCHAETOTHRIPINAE, Bagnall, 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 : 163

PANCHAETOTHRIPINAE Bagnall

This subfamily comprises 145 species in 43 genera distributed throughout tropical countries, with most species native to the Old World tropics, Africa and Southeast Asia, and a few endemic to Australia or South America (Mound 2009). Nine species in four genera were previously recorded from Arabian Peninsula (zur Strassen & van Harten 2006, 2008; zur Strassen 1979, 1990), but two further members of this subfamily, Retithrips syriacus and Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis , were reported from Saudi Arabia ( Martin 1972). Six species in two genera Caliothrips and Phibalothrips are here new to Saudi Arabia, and one species of Caliothrips cannot be identified to species level at present.