Plicothrips apicalis (Bagnall)

Rasool, Iftekhar, Alattal, Yehya Zaki, Ansi, Amin Al & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2025, The Suborder Tubulifera (Thysanoptera) of Saudi Arabia with one new species, new records and checklist to the Arabian Peninsula species, Zootaxa 5627 (3), pp. 431-454 : 450

Plicothrips apicalis (Bagnall)

( Figs 29 , 66–67 )

Hindsiana apicalis Bagnall, 1915: 323 .

The species has Oriental affinities and was described from India, recorded from China, Taiwan, Thailand, ( Dang et al. 2014), Pakistan, Iran and new to the Arabian Peninsula. The two species in the genus at present can be distinguished only on antennal colour ( Minaei & Mound 2008; Mound & Tree 2022).

Material examined. All collected from Cynodon dactylon : Eastern Province. 10 females, two males, Al Qarya 29.viii.2022, (BT). Riyadh : eight females, five males, Al-Deri’yya, 21. i.2019, (Sucking), Jawad H. Mirza; 15 females, Al Muzahamiya, 12.iii.2020, (BT); one female, Zulfi, 27.iii.2019, (BT), Yousif N. Aldryhim; seven females, three males, Shaqra, 27.iv.2018, (Sucking); Sajir, Hathal et al.; one female, Dirab, 09.vi.2020, (SW), Soliman, A.

Figures

FIGURES 28–34. (28–29) Tergites. (28) Chiraplothrips graminellus; (29) Plicothrips apicalis; (30–34) Pronotum. (30) Haplothrips articulosus; (31) H. bagnalli; (32) H. clarisetis; (33) H. leptadeniae; (34) H. tardus.

FIGURES 60–67: Adults of Phlaeothripidae. (60–61) H. leptadeniae (60) Female (61) Male; (62–63) H. maroccanus (62) Female; (63) Male; (64–65) H. tardus (64) Female; (65) Male; (66–67) Plicothrips apicalis (66) Female; (67) Male.