Eremiothrips Priesner

Mirab-balou, Majid, Minaei, Kambiz & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2013, An illustrated key to the genera of Thripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from Iran, ZooKeys 317, pp. 27-52 : 33

Eremiothrips Priesner

Remarks.

This genus with 18 species ( ThripsWiki 2013) is included in Anaphothrips genus-group ( Mound and Masumoto 2009). Bhatti et al. (2003) published a catalogue of the Eremiothrips in Iran with key for separating the nine species of this genus. Recognition of species of Eremiothrips based on females is extremely difficult, since the general appearance and fine structural details of females are very similar in related species. However, males can be assigned readily to species because of distinctive structural features ( Bhatti et al. 2003). In Iran, the genus includes 12 species ( Bhatti et al. 2009b, Ramezani et al. 2009, Minaei 2012a) and a key to Iranian Eremiothrips based on the male sex is available ( Minaei 2012a).