Eremiothrips arya (zur Strassen, 1975)

Rasool, Iftekhar, Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Alattal, Yehya Zaki & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2021, The Anaphothrips genus-group of Thripidae (Thysanoptera) from Saudi Arabia with two new species of Eremiothrips, Journal of Natural History 55 (25 - 26), pp. 1599-1617 : 1610

Eremiothrips arya (zur Strassen)

( Figures 3 , 23, 28 )

Ascirtothrips arya zur Strassen, 1975, p. 260

Previously known only from Iran, this species is here recorded from Saudi Arabia. It is very similar to E. taghizadehi (zur Strassen) from which it can be distinguished by the straight paired processes on tergite IX ( Figure 23 ) (in contrast to paired processes recurved at apex) and the wider pore plates on sternites IV–VII ( Figure 28 ) (in contrast to less wide pore plates) ( Minaei 2012).

Material examined

Saudi Arabia, Al Baha, Aqiq, Wadi Liyan , one male from unknown weed, 23 September 2020 (I. Rasool) ( KSMA) .

Figures

Figures 1–6. Antennae: (1) Aptinothrips rufus (Haliday); (2–6) Eremiothrips Priesner: (2) E. aldryhimi sp. nov., (3) E. arya (zur Strassen), (4) E. efflatouni (Priesner), (5) E. similis Bhatti, (6) E. unicolour sp. nov.

Figures 22–31. Eremiothrips species. Male tergite IX: (22) E. aldryhimi sp. nov., (23) E. arya (zur Strassen), (24) E. efflatouni (Priesner), (25) E. similis Bhatti, (26) E. unicolour sp. nov. Male sternites III–VII: (27) E. aldryhimi sp. nov., (28) E. arya (zur Strassen), (29) E. efflatouni (Priesner), (30) E. similis Bhatti, (31) E. unicolour sp. nov.