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Synaptothrips paradoxus (Bagnall) 



Limphysothrips paradoxus Bagnall, 1919 : 272-273. 

 Synaptothrips paradoxus (Bagnall) Mound, 1968b [in press]. 



Holotypc $. East Africa : Bismarkhugel [? Tanganyika : Bismarkburg] 

 3.iv.i()i2 (Alluaitd & Jeannel 70). 



TAENIOTHRIPS Amyot & Serville 



Taeniothrips Amyot & Serville, 1843 : 644. Type-species Thrips primidae Haliday, 1836, 



designated by Karny, 1907 : 45. 

 Ambfythrips Bagnall, 1911b : 3. Type-species A. ericae, by monotypy. 

 Megalurothrips Bagnall, 1915b : 589. Type-species .1/. typicus, by monotypy. 

 ( eratothripoides Bagnall, 1918a : 201. Type-species C. brunneus, by monotypy. 



The specimens on which Ambfythrips ericae Bagnall was based, were males, not 

 females as was stated originally. The genus has been used for two species of 

 Taeniothrips in which the males are reduced and apterous. Megalurothrips was 

 based on a single female of a species now recognized to be related to Taeniothrips 

 nigricornis (Schmutz). It is possible that this genus could be usefully revived to 

 include certain Odontothrips-Yike species of Taeniothrips. (eratothripoides, like 

 Ceratothrips Karny, was erected for a specimen with aberrant antennae. 



The genus Taeniothrips is clearly polyphyletic and many of its species are closely 

 related to forms at present included in the genus Thrips. Table I draws attention 

 to this relationship between the two genera, although only Bagnall's species or their 

 senior synonyms are included. It is possible that the generic limits could be more 

 realistically drawn following the vertical columns rather than the horizontal. The 

 present division between Thrips and Taeniothrips, which is based purely on the 

 seven- or eight-segmented condition of the antennae, is not sound morphology as it 

 is the extremities of an insect's body which are most likely to be affected by abnormal 

 growth conditions. 



Taeniothrips andrewsi (Bagnall) 



Physothrips andrewsi Bagnall, 1921c! : 394-395. 



This species is very close to Thrips albipes from which it can only be distinguished 

 by the larger size and longer antennae, and the uniform brown colour. T. andrewsi 

 has been taken on tea in Assam. Only one specimen, marked cotype, remains in 

 Bagnall's collection, and this specimen is here designated lectotype. 



LECTOTYPE $. India : Darjeeling District, Rington Tea Estate, on rose, 

 14.vi.1g16 (E. A. Andrews). 



Taeniothrips antennatus (Bagnall) 



Physothrips antennatus Bagnall, 1914b : 23-24. 



Superficially similar to xanthoceros Hood, which has the same habit of feeding on 

 fungus spores on Coffee, antennatus may be distinguished by the presence of ocellar 



