Faunistic inventory, identification keys and zoogeographical analysis of the Thysanoptera-Terebrantia of Saudi Arabia, including two new species Author Rasool, Iftekhar 0000-0002-8955-2340 Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. Department of Plant Protection, Chair of Engineer Abdullah Ahmad Bagshan for Bee Research, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. & irasool @ ksu. edu. sa; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8955 - 2340; irasool@ksu.edu.sa Author Alattal, Yehya Zaki Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. Department of Plant Protection, Chair of Engineer Abdullah Ahmad Bagshan for Bee Research, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. Author Aldhafer, Hathal M. 0000-0002-4911-2332 Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. Department of Plant Protection, Chair of Engineer Abdullah Ahmad Bagshan for Bee Research, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, KSA. & hdhafer @ ksu. edu. sa, http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4911 - 2332 text Zootaxa 2023 2023-06-20 5306 2 151 200 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5306.2.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.2.1 1175-5326 8058749 B368BB44-3731-4DC2-B281-C586FC692CEB Scolothrips latipennis Priesner Scolothrips latipennis Priesner, 1950b: 54 . This Mediterranean species is widespread in Western and Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and Mediterranean Levant (zur Strassen & Kuslitzky 2011), and also extends to Saudi Arabia , Iran , and Ukraine . It was collected together with S. longicornis from the same plant. It is similar to S. brevipilis , that is also known from the Arabian Peninsula, but can be distinguished by extensively shaded clavus and light brown abdominal tergites, in contrast to the pale clavus and yellow abdomen of S. brevipilis ( Mound 2011b ) . Material studied. Al Baha . Almendaq , Wadi Turabah , one female from Nicotiana glauca , 6.iv.2019 ; Saudi Arabia , Al Jawf , one female with T. urticae on Melon leaves, 23.x.2021 ; Saudi Arabia , Taberjal , one female , with T. urticae on eggplant leaves, 24.x.2021 , ( BT ) .