Bagnalliella Karny, 1920

Cavalleri, Adriano, Lindner, Mariana F. & Mendonça Jr, Milton de S., 2016, New Neotropical Haplothripini (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) with a key to Central and South American genera, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 1389-1410 : 1398

Bagnalliella Karny

Type species: Cephalothrips yuccae Hinds.

This genus includes seven species from North America, all of which breed on plants of the genus Yucca , plus one from New Guinea and another from South Africa ( Mound and Marullo 1996; Hoddle et al. 2012). In appearance Bagnalliella species are similar to some Haplothrips , but they differ in having only two or three sense cones on antennal segment IV ( Mound and Marullo 1996). The widespread B. yuccae (Hinds) is reported from Central America, and populations studied in Australia exhibit remarkable variation in the number of sense cones on antennal segments III and IV ( Tree 2010). This species is characterised by having small grooves on the cheeks, and is considered pestiferous to Yucca plants ( Hoddle et al. 2012).