Eremiothrips
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Thysanoptera |
| Family: | Thripidae |
| Subfamily: | Thripinae |
| Genus: | Eremiothrips Priesner, 1950 |
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Antilopothrips Priesner, 1965 | |
Eremiothrips is a genus of thrips that belongs to the subfamily Thripinae.[1] This species can be found in xeric and desert-like environments of North Africa (Sahara Desert) and the Arabian Peninsula with some being found in the northern Mediterranean, India and China.
The genus is delicate and small with males being smaller than females. They usually have a pale coloration. Due to males having a smaller size and being rarer, they are often overlooked.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Members of this genus can be found in Morocco with their range stretching through the Sahara Desert and into the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. A few species have been recorded in the northern Mediterranean regions, India and China. There are around nine species that have been recorded in Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula.[2]
It is a eremophilous genus that often associated with xeric or desert-like environments. They inhabit regions with hyper-arid climates such as the Sahara Desert and the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) of the Arabian Peninsula.[2]
Ecology
[edit]Feeding
[edit]All species are presumably phytophagous feeding on flowers and leaves. There seems to be no host association in this genus.[3]
Pests
[edit]There has been no evidence for any species of this genus being pests and having adverse affects on crops.[3]
There has been documented instances of damage being done to Sarcocornia fruticosa by both immature and adults of Eremiothrips negevi. These instances are claimed to cause damage that are similar to the typical injury seen on chives (Allium schoenoprasum) caused by the pest tobacco thrips (Thrips tabaci). An author of the paper that recorded this instance of damage caused by Eremiothrips negevi species done a research visit from Selçuk University in Konya, Türkiye to the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. The research visit was part of a postdoctoral project on Eremiothrips species where she would find no morphological differences between the two species.[4][3]
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus is classed within the family Thripidae and more specifically within the subfamily Thripinae. It is considered to be a member of the Anaphothrips genus group.[1][3][5]
Species
[edit]Below is a incomplete list of species within the genus:
- Eremiothrips acutus (Bhatti, 1972)
- Eremiothrips aldryhimi Rasool, Abdel-Dayem, Alattal & Aldhafer, 2021[5]
- Eremiothrips antilope (Priesner, 1923)
- Eremiothrips arya (zur Strassen, 1975)
- Eremiothrips bhattii Minaei, 2012[6]
- Eremiothrips brunneus (zur Strassen, 1975)
- Eremiothrips dorcas (zur Strassen, 1975)
- Eremiothrips dubius (Priesner, 1933)
- Eremiothrips efflatouni (Priesner, 1965)
- Eremiothrips eshghii Minaei, 2014
- Eremiothrips farsi Bhatti & Telmadarraiy, 2003
- Eremiothrips hanshanensis Zhang & Feng, 2017
- Eremiothrips hudeci (Pelikan, 2002)
- Eremiothrips imitator Priesner, 1950
- Eremiothrips negevi Ben-David, 2017[4]
- Eremiothrips brunneus (zur Strassen, 1975)
- Eremiothrips manolachei (Knechtel, 1955)[3]
- Eremiothrips shirabudinensis (Yakhontov, 1929)
- Eremiothrips similis Bhatti, 1988
- Eremiothrips taghizadehi (zur Strassen, 1975)
- Eremiothrips tamaricis (zur Strassen, 1975)
- Eremiothrips tetraenae Rasool & Aldhafer, 2026[2]
- Eremiothrips unicolour Rasool, Abdel-Dayem, Alattal & Aldhafer, 2021[5]
- Eremiothrips varius (Bhatti, 1967)
- Eremiothrips xerophilus Rasool & Aldhafer, 2026[2]
- Eremiothrips zurstrasseni Bhatti Bagheri & Ramezani, 2009
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Eremiothrips". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2026-09-11.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Rasool, Iftekhar; Aldhafer, Hathal M. (2026-09-11). "Two new species of the genus Eremiothrips Priesner (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Saudi Arabia". ZooKeys. 1291. Pensoft Publishers: 239–249. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1291.200571. ISSN 1313-2970.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Minaei, Kambiz; Sahin Negis, Inci (2026-01-01). "A new synonymy in the Palearctic genus, Eremiothrips (Thys.: Thripidae)". Journal of Entomological Society of Iran. 46 (1). Entomological Society of Iran: 113–119. doi:10.22034/jesi.46.1.11. ISSN 0259-9996.
- 1 2 Ben-David, Tselila (2017-11-23). "Eremiothrips negevi, a new species of thrips from Israel (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Terebrantia: Thripidae)". Israel Journal of Entomology. 47: 133–140. ISSN 2224-6304.
- 1 2 3 Rasool, Iftekhar; Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S.; Alattal, Yehya Zaki; Aldhafer, Hathal M. (2021-07-03). "The Anaphothrips genus-group of Thripidae (Thysanoptera) from Saudi Arabia with two new species of Eremiothrips". Journal of Natural History. 55 (25–26). Taylor & Francis: 1599–1617. doi:10.1080/00222933.2021.1939187. ISSN 0022-2933.
- ↑ Minaei, Kambiz (2012-06-18). "The genus Eremiothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Iran, with one new species". Zootaxa. 3349: 56–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3349.1.6.