Dolicholepta micrura
Creators: name: Rasool, Iftekhar
name: Alattal, Yehya Zaki
name: Ansi, Amin Al
name: Aldhafer, Hathal M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Dolicholepta
Dolicholepta micrura

description: Dolicholepta micrura (Bagnall)
(Figs 3, 12, 18, 20, 24, 47)
Liothrips micrura Bagnall, 1914: 292
This Saharo-Arabian species was described from Egypt based on two specimens. It is now wide spread from North Africa to the Middle East (Minaei & Mound 2008), and is widespread in Arabian Peninsula (Table 1). This species is largely associated with Acacia and Zizyphus spp. (see material examined). It is very close to D. nigripes in appearance. However, it can be distinguished by reduced mid lateral pronotal setae (Fig. 12), compared to stout setae with expended apex in D. nigripes (Mound 1968).
Material examined. Three females, one male from Acacia sp., Wadi Shouqab, 5.iv.2019, (BT). Al Jouf. 19 females, 11 from Zizyphus sp., Sakaka, 18.viii.2022, (SW). Eastern Province: 21 females, 12 males from Zizyphus sp., Al Ahsa, Al Ghouiba, 17.iv.2022, (SW); four females, two males from Zizyphus sp., Al Ahsa, 20.ii.2022, (BT). Al Madinah: 18 females, seven males from Zizyphus sp., Al Ula’a, 20.iii.2022, (BT); 11 females, one male from Zizyphus sp., Al Sheer, 18.x.2021, (BT); 20 females, six males from Zizyphus sp., Boir, 18.x.2021, (BT); 18 females, seven males from Zizyphus sp., Mittan, 19.x.2021, (BT). Riyadh: Four females, three males from Rumix vesicarius, Al Oyayna, (BT); 14 females, six males from Acacia sp., Rumah, Rawdat Khuraim, 30.i.2019, (BT); 41 females, four males from Ziziphus spina, 13.ii.2019, Sudus, (BT); 26 females, two males from Ziziphus spina, AL Muzahamiya, 12.iii.2020, (BT); 17 females, four males from Acacia sp. Al-Deri’yya, Hassiya Dam, 14.iii.2019, (BT), Yousif N. Aldryhim and Rasool, I. 14 females from Ziziphus spina, Al Dawadmi, Ureeda, 13.iii.2020, (BT); 26 females, two males from Acacia sp. Badidah, 13.iii.2020, (BT); 41 females, five males from Acacia tortilis, Afif, 14.iii.2020; two females from Acacia sp. Khazara, 14.iii.2020, (BT); 18 females from Ziziphus nummularia, Rumah, 20.iii.2020, (BT); four females from Lycium shawii, Al Quwaiiyah, 14.iii.2020, (BT); two females from Ziziphus spina-christi, Al Majmaa, 28.iii.2019, (BT); two females from Ziziphus spina-christi, Al ghat, 27.iii.2019, (BT), Yousif, N. Aldryhim and Rasool, I; 21 females, six males from Acacia sp., Al Oyayna, 2.iv.2019, (BT); three females, one male from Poaceae, Sajir, 29.iv.2018, (SW); one females from Poaceae, 29.iv.2018, Hathal et al.; two females at light, Al Khararah, 2.x.2019, Yousif, N. Aldryhim and Rasool, I. Tabouk: seven females from Zizyphus sp., Umluj, 28.ix.2022, (BT); 21 females, four males from Zizyphus sp., Aldeesah, 21.x.2021, (BT).
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 431-454 in Zootaxa 5627 (3) on page 435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/15326268