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Taeniothrips major Bagnall 



Taeniothrips major Bagnall, 1916a : 216. 



This species is very close to picipes Zett., the type-species of the genus Taeniothrips. 

 The four specimens available of Bagnall's species can be separated from picipes by 

 the dark colour of antennal III, and the origin of ocellar setae III on a line joining the 

 posterior ocelli rather than just anterior to that line. 



LECTOTYPE $. India : Kulhara, Garhwal, 11,700 ft., Rhododendron flowers, 

 S.vi.igio (A. D. Imms). 



Taeniothrips nigricornis (Schmutz) 3 

 (Text-fig. 14) 



Frankliniella nigricornis Schmutz, 1913 : 1020-1021. 

 Physothrips iisitatus Bagnall, I9i3f : 293-294. 

 Physothrips iisitatus var. cinctipennis Bagnall, 1016a : 217-21.S. 

 Physothrips brunneicornis Bagnall, 1916a : 21S. Syn. n. 

 Taeniothrips nigricornis (Schmutz) ; Priesner, 1038 : 470-.); 1 



Priesner gives brunneicornis as a synonym of disialis Karny, a species not known to 

 the present author. T. nigricornis is a highly variable species and in a long series the 

 author has studied from New Guinea the largest specimen is almost twice as long 

 as the smallest. The females are very similar to sjostedti Trybom, although the 

 males are readily distinguished by the lack of the pair of marginal spines on tergite 

 IX, which are found in the African species. 



Syntypes $ of usitatus. India : Allahabad, Butea frondosa flowers (A. D. Imms). 



Syntypes $ of cinctipennis. Australia : Queensland, Brandon, on small flowers 

 (pea), 16. x. 1914 (R. Kelly). 



Holotype $ of brunneicornis. Japan : Kobe, iv.1914 (/. E. A. Lewis). 



Taeniothrips pallens (Priesner) comb. n. 



Oxythrips ericae var. pallens Priesner, 1919b : 89. 

 Anblythrips ericicola Bagnall, 1927b : 573-574. 

 Amblythrips pallens (Priesner) ; Priesner, 1964 : 83. 



Holotype $ of ericicola. France : lies d'Hyeres, Porquerolles, Erica arborea, 

 ix.1927 {R.S.B.). 



Taeniothrips peculiaris (Bagnall) 



Physothrips peculiaris Bagnall, 1918a : 206-207. 



Taeniothrips (Pongamiothrips) peculiaris (Bagnall) Ananthakrishnan, 1962 : 90-91. 



Bagnall described this species on a series of males but Ananthakrishnan has 

 recently figured the female and male antennae. The sternites of the male bear 



3 Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish (1967, Opusc. ent. 32 : 159-160) indicate that distalis Karny, 1913, is 

 the oldest name for this species. 



