The Anaphothrips genus-group of Thripidae (Thysanoptera) from Saudi Arabia with two new species of Eremiothrips Author Rasool, Iftekhar Author Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. Author Alattal, Yehya Zaki Author Aldhafer, Hathal M. text Journal of Natural History 2021 2021-09-20 55 25 - 26 1599 1617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2021.1939187 journal article 10.1080/00222933.2021.1939187 1464-5262 5529878 Eremiothrips Priesner The eremophilous genus Eremiothrips currently includes 21 species (ThripsWiki 2021). Most of these are known from southern Mediterranean countries ( Bhatti et al. 2003 ; zur Strassen 2003), with 13 known only from Iran ( Minaei 2012 , 2014 ; Minaei and Aleosfoor 2020 ), and a few known from India and China ( Minaei 2012 ). The desert climate of Saudi Arabia seems favourable for this genus. The members of Eremiothrips can be recognised by the following features: antennae 9-segmented ( E. bhatti and E. efflatouni 8-segmented); sense cones on antennal segments III and IV forked (simple in E. imitator ); head wider than long; pronotum with 1 pair of posteroangular setae ( E. efflatouni and E. eshghii without setae); tergites and sternites of abdomen without craspeda. Males with or without pore plates on sternites, tergite IX with special paired processes present or absent ( Bhatti et al. 2003 ; Minaei 2014 ). Species of Eremiothrips are seemingly phytophagous on flowers and leaves and do not exhibit a specific host association.