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Chirothrips aculeatus Bagnall 



Chirothrips similis of Priesner, 1926 : 142, nee Bagnall, 1909. 

 Chirothrips aculeatus Bagnall, 1927a : 567. 

 Chirothrips angusticornis Bagnall, 1932b : 186-187. 

 Chirothrips aculaetus Bagnall ; zur Strassen i960 : 168. 



Bagnall stated that aculeatus was ' readily separated from similis by the long 

 pointed end of the abdomen ', and indicated that the species had been fully described 

 by Priesner on material from Austria and Hungary. No types were designated but 

 one of the original specimens collected by Pillich in Hungary is here designated as 

 lectotype. Some of the material referred to by Bagnall as aculeatus was later 

 described by him as angusticornis on the grounds that these specimens were smaller 

 and paler. 



LECTOTYPE <j>. Hungaria : Simontornya, ' Weingarten Gramineen ', 5.V. 

 1924 (F. Pillich). 



LECTOTYPE $ of angusticornis. FRANCE : Gavarnie, on grass, no date (Randall 

 Cooke). 



Chirothrips africanus Priesner 



Chirothrips africanus Priesner, 1932a : 46-47. 

 Chirothrips aethiops Bagnall, 1932b : 1 84 



This species is closely related to manicatus Hal. and pallidicornis Pr. It may be 

 recognized by the straight exterior margin of antennal II similar to pallidicornis, 

 the four setae on the hind vein of the fore wing as in manicatus, and the fact that 

 antennal VII is distinctly longer than VIII. Priesner notes that this is a common 

 species in Egypt, and the present author has taken it several times in Wad Medani, 

 Sudan. It has been recorded from Cyprus and India. Further comments on this 

 specimen will be found under manicatus. 



Holotype $ of aethiops. Sudan : Wad Medani, Gezira Research Farm, on 

 Medicago sativa, 5.11.1931 (W. P. L. Cameron). 



Chirothrips manicatus Haliday 



Thrips (Chirothrips) manicala Haliclay, 1836 : 444. 



Chirothrips similis Bagnall, 19091 : 34-35. 



Chirothrips ammophilae Bagnall, 1927b : 564-565. Syn. n. 



Chirothrips similis var. productus Bagnall, 1932b : 184. 



Chirothrips ambulans Bagnall, 1932b : 185. 



Chirothrips laingi Bagnall, 1932b : 185-186. 



Chirothrips manicatus Haliday ; zur Strassen, 1959 : 89. 



The above synonymy is taken from the studies on Chirothrips by zur Strassen 

 (1959 and i960). Priesner (1964 : no) is not fully in agreement with these con- 

 clusions, particularly concerning the nominal species pallidicornis Priesner. In the 

 present author's opinion, if pallidicornis is a distinct species 1 then ammophilae (syn. 



1 Zur Strassen (1967, /. ent. Soc. sth. A jr. 29 : 33) has recently shown that pallidicornis is to be re- 

 garded as a valid species. 



