n 4 L. A. MOUND 



Haplothrips priesnerianus Bagnall 



(Text-fig. 45) 



Haplothrips priesnerianus Bagnall, 1933a : 327-328. 

 Haplothrips tolerabilis Priesner, 1936 : 96-97. Syn. n. 

 Haplothrips tolerabilis Priesner ; Faure, 1956a : 115-117. 



The aedeagus and chaetotaxy of specimens determined as tolerabilis by J. C. Faure 

 have been compared with the type specimens of preisnerianus. Some specimens in 

 the British Museum (Natural History) collection determined by various authors as 

 ganglbaueri Schmutz are also conspecific with priesnerianus, but the type specimens 

 of Schmutz's species have not been seen by the present author. H. tolerabilis was 

 described from Sudan and later recorded from Libya and Southern Sudan. The 

 present author has examined specimens from rice and other Gramineae from the 

 Solomon Islands, and also specimens from Gramineae and some dicotyledons in 

 West Pakistan. 



LECTOTYPE £. [India : Allahabad, flowers of Lantana in jungle, 26.iii.1910 

 (A. D. Imms)], Reg. 209. 



Haplothrips propinquus Bagnall 



(Text-fig. 43) 



Haplothrips propinquus Bagnall, 1933a : 325-326. 



The unique male holotype of this species is mounted with the aedeagus well 

 displayed. The expanded spoon-shaped tip of this structure is 20(i. broad and about 

 40[x long, and the shaft is about 30fx by io\l. The same species is present in the 

 Bagnall collection from the Eastern Pyrenees labelled ' angusticornis Priesner '. 

 The present author has not examined type specimens of angusticornis but Fabian 

 (1938) illustrates the aedeagus of that species as barely wider than the shaft. H. 

 angusticornis of Morison (1949 : 99) is actually propinquus, and the true host plant 

 is Achillea millefolium. 



Holotype £. France : l'Hospitalet, 6,000 ft., Dianthus fimbriatus, viii.1926 

 {R.S.B.). 



Haplothrips quadraticeps Bagnall 



Haplothrips quadraticeps Bagnall, 1933a : 333-334- 



This species resembles juncorum in the shape of the head and eyes, and the elongate 

 maxillary stylets which are close together in the middle of the head. The terminal 

 wing cilia are weakly plumose and the pronotal anteromarginal setae are no longer 

 than the discal setae. 



Holotype $. France : L. Bouillouse, nr. Montlouis, Sempervivum, viii.1926 

 (R.S.B.). 



