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CRANOTHRIPS Bagnall 



Cranoihrips Bagnall, 1915a : 315. Type-species Cranothrips poultoni, by monotypy. 

 Cranothrips Bagnall ; Mound, 1967b : 53. 



Cranothrips poultoni Bagnall 



Cranothrips poultoni Bagnall, 1915a : 316. 

 Cranothrips poultoni Bagnall ; Mound, 1967b : 53-54. 



This differs from Ankothrips species in having the first, not the second, antennal 

 segment produced at its inner margin into a serrate lobe, and in lacking a stout inter- 

 antennal projection bearing the ante-ocellar setae. The metanotal sculpture consists 

 of a series of arcuate lines concentric about the anterior midpoint of the metanotum. 



LECTOTYPE $. Western Australia : Nr. Freemantle, on flowers, viii.1914 

 [E. B. Poulton No. 17). 



DESMOTHRIPS Hood 



Desmothrips Hood, 1915a : 57. Type-species Orothrips australis Bagnall, by monotypy. 

 Archaeolothrips Bagnall, 1924k : 627. Type-species A. fontis, by monotypy. 

 Desmothrips Hood ; Mound, 1967b : 54-56. 



Bagnall concluded from a study of the number of maxillary palp segments that 

 Archaeolothrips, based on a single male, was related to Aeolothrips, and that Desmo- 

 thrips was related to Orothrips. However in Orothrips species all the antennal 

 segments are distinctly separate and the genus is apparently related to Melanthrips. 

 All Desmothrips species are from Australia. 



Desmothrips australis (Bagnall) 



Orothrips australis Bagnall, 1914c : 287. 

 Archaeolothrips fontis Bagnall, 1924k : 627-628. 

 Desmothrips australis (Bagnall) ; Mound, 1967b : 57-60. 



Holotype $. Australia : Victoria, Healesville, Xanthorrhoea australis, 12.x. 1913 

 (A. E. Shaw). 



Holotype <$ of fontis. Australia : Victoria, Healesville, Erythrea australis, 

 21.xii.1913 (A. E. Shaw & R. Kelly). 



Desmothrips obsoletus Bagnall 



Desmothrips obsoletus Bagnall, 1924k : 626-627. 

 Desmothrips obsoletus Bagnall ; Mound, 1967b : 63. 



The unique holotype lacks accessory setae on sternites V and VI, and this is 

 unusual in species related to Desmothrips. 



Holotype $. Australia : Victoria, Melbourne, Brighton Beach, Mesembry- 

 anthemum growing in sand, 8.xii.i923 (R. Kelly). 



