A REVIEW OF R. S. BAGNALL'S 

 THYSANOPTERA COLLECTIONS 



By L. A. MOUND 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 

 Biographical notes 

 The collections 



Black slides 



Carded specimens 



Specimens in tubes 



Labelling of specimens 



Missing species . 

 Lectotype designations 

 Species ascribed to Bagnall 

 Recent Thysanoptera 



Aeolothripidac 



Heterothripidae 



Thripidae . 



Fhlaeothripidae 

 Fossil Thysanopu ra 

 References . 

 Index 



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SYNOPSIS 



Between 1907 and 1936 R. S. Bagnall published almost 700 of the 5,000 names now available 

 in the Insect Order Thysanoptera. This review consists largely of an annotated catalogue of 

 these generic and specific names and includes 134 new synonymies and 39 new combinations. 

 The original descriptions have been compared in each case with the material remaining in 

 Bagnall's Collection, lectotypes arc selected for many species and the original host and locality 

 data are quoted for each species. Full synonymic histories are not given for each species, 

 however. Biographical notes arc included, also a general account of the history of the collections, 

 with a list of the missing species and a list of the species ascribed to Bagnall in error. 



INTRODUCTION 



R. S. Bagnall was one of the most outstanding amateur entomologists of the first 

 thirty years of this century. A brilliant field worker known mainly for his studies 

 on Thysanoptera and Collembola, he also published numerous papers on other 

 Orders of insects and arthropods. Between the years 1907 and 1936 he published in 

 the Order Thysanoptera alone some 577 species-group names and 100 genus-group 

 names as well as a number of Family and other higher groups. The importance of 

 this contribution can be gauged from the fact that Uzel's Monograph of the Thysan- 

 optera lists only 135 species in 36 genera up to the year 1895. Bagnall and Professor 



