n8 L. A. MOUND 



Haplothrips sorghicola Bagnall 



Haplothrips sorghicola Bagnall, 1933a : 332-333. 

 Haplothrips confinis Priesner, 1950 : 79-80. Syn. n. 



The above synonymy is based on a comparison of Bagnall's unique holotype with 

 Priesner's description of confinis, and a series of specimens from Segou, Mali 

 Republic. Several of Bagnall's measurements of the holotype are overestimated, 

 thus the three subbasal wing setae are 32 : 35 ; 48(0. in length, and the postocular 

 setae 42(x arising t.$\x behind the eye. The species differs from priesnerianus in 

 having yellow apices to the tibiae. 



Holotype $. Sudan : Blue Nile Province, Darwish, Sorghum, [ix.1931] 

 (W. P. L. Cameron). 



Haplothrips tenuipennis Bagnall 

 (Text-fig. 46) 



Haplothrips tenuipennis Bagnall, 1918a : 210-211. 



Haplothrips ceylonicus var. mangiferae Priesner, 1933 : 359. Syn. n. 



The present author has not seen any specimens of ceylonicus which bear the 

 original data given by Schmutz (1913 : 1039), but most of the material from India 

 in the British Museum collection labelled ceylonicus is here regarded as conspecific 

 with tenuipennis. Paratypes of mangiferae have been examined. Contrary to 

 Ananthakrishnan (1964 : 48) antennals III to VI are yellow, as are the tarsi and the 

 apices of the middle and hind tibiae. The median setae on tergite IX are shorter 

 than the tube, the third subbasal wing seta is acute, and the inner sense cone on 

 antennal III is smaller than the outer. The shaft of the aedeagus is slightly curved 

 upwards but the extreme tip is weakly expanded and turned down. 



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

 14.vi.1916 (E. A. Andrews). 



Paratypes 9 of mangiferae. Java : Semarang, Mangifera indica flowers, 25.viii. 

 1912 {van Leeuwen). 



Haplothrips tertius Bagnall 



(Text-fig. 48) 



Haplothrips (Trybomiella) tertius Bagnall, 1934b : 484-485. 



The present author has collected this species commonly at Wad Medani, Sudan, on 

 the flowers of garden Zinnias. It can be distinguished most readily from articulosus 

 by the spoon-shaped aedeagus tip. The type specimen is not in the Paris Museum 

 or the British Museum (Natural History). 



Paratypes <$<$ & ?$• Mali : Koulikoro, Chrysanthemum procumbens, i.vii.1913 

 (J. Vuillet). 



