Chirothrips manicatus (Haliday)

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 : 172

Chirothrips manicatus (Haliday)

Thrips manicatus Haliday, 1836: 444 .

This Palearctic species, described from England, is widespread throughout Europe and Middle East to Japan and Australia ( Minaei & Mound 2010). It breeds and feeds in the florets of Dactylis spp. and is also associated with many other species of Poaceae . C. manicatus is close to C. kurdistanus from which it can be separated by tergite I with complete craspeda at posterior margin, whereas in C. kurdistanus tergite I with crespeda restricted to the median third of posterior margin.

Material studied. Al Baha. Aqiq , one female from Aristida sp. , 23.ix.2020, ( BT), Rasool, I . Riyadh. Al Kharj, one female from Agrostis sp. , 24.iv.2018, ( SW), Hathal et al.; Al Majmaa, one female from Agrostis sp , 28.iv.2018, ( SW); Tamir, one female, ( SW); Wadi Al Dawasir , two females from Agrostis sp. , 9. v.2018, ( SW), Hathal et al.; Dirab, 29 females from Panicum antidotale , 2.vi.2020, ( BT), Rasool, I .