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 sexmaculatus (Pergande) Thrips sexmaculata Pergande, 1891: 539 This is a New World species that was first described from California, and is also known from Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Canada ( Diffie et al. 2008 ), as well as Egypt and India and is here newly recorded from Saudi Arabia . It is similar to the Old World species S. rhagebianus from which it can be distinguished by the entirely pale or shaded abdominal tergites III–VI in contrast to tergites III–VI with dark spots anterolaterally. Material studied. Al Baha , one female from Chloris barbata , 25.ix.2020 ; Mulail , three females from Cenchrus sp. , 26.ix.2020 ; Qilwah , one female from Cenchrus pennisetiformis , 25.ix.2020 . Riyadh , Dirab , one female , 09.vi.2020 .