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Bagnall described this species from a single female, and zur Strassen having found 

 the species in the Canary Islands has recently redescribed it as the type of a new 

 monotypic genus. It is apparently a grass-living species. 



Holotype 9- France : l'Estaque near Marseille, on a crucifer, ix.1927 (R.S.B.). 



BRACHYUROTHRIPS Bagnall 



Brachyurothrips Bagnall, 1921b : 265. Type-species B. anomalus, by monotypy. 

 Brachyurothrips Bagnall ; Bagnall, 1929c! : 69. 

 Brachyurothrips Bagnall ; Costa Lima, 1956 : 559-563. 



Costa Lima has suggested from a consideration of the descriptions, that this genus 

 is identical with Xestothrips Priesner. However, Brachyurothrips is clearly different 

 from both Selenothrips and Xestothrips in having only one pair of ocellar setae, simple 

 trichomes on antennals III and IV , only one seta on the second vein of the fore wing, 

 and few setae on the pronotum. 



Brachyurothrips anomalus Bagnall 



Brachyurothrips anomalus Bagnall, 1921b : 265-266. 

 Brachyurothrips hargreavesi Bagnall, 1929a! : 70-71. Syn. n. 

 Brachyurothrips walteri Costa Lima, 1956 : 560-562. Syn. n. 



The description of anomalus was based on a single damaged female from which the 

 antennae are missing. Although hargreavesi was described from several females, no 

 attempt was made to compare the two species, and it is clear that Bagnall was in 

 some doubt as to the validity of the second name. No difference can be found 

 between the two forms and they are here regarded as synonymous. The type 

 specimen of walteri from Bahia has not been examined, but the author has seen one 

 female collected by G. Bondar on leaves of Malvaceae, 17.iii.1926, at Bahia, Brazil, 

 which is anomalus. The description of walteri does not indicate any differences from 

 the type of the genus. In addition to the characters given under the genus above, 

 anomalus is remarkable in the very long costal setae, the long microtrichia of the 

 wing, and the microtrichia on the median part of each tergite, particularly the eighth 

 just anterior to the comb. 



Holotype $. Seychelles : Mahe, 1908-1909. No. 97. 



Syntypes 6 $ of hargreavesi. Sierra Leone : Njala, on Acalypha, 8.viii.i926 

 (E. Hargr eaves No. 240). 



Bregmatothrips ramakrishnae Bagnall 

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Bregmatothrips ramakrishnae Bagnall, 1923c : 625-626. 



Neolimothrips saccharivora Shumsher ; Ananthakrishnan 1966 : 30-31. 



Neolimothrips is here regarded as being synonymous with Bregmatothrips in view 

 of the close similarity of the setal arrangement of the head and pronotum, and the 



