PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 87(4), 1985, pp. 894-895 Note Haplothnps kurdjumovi Kamy in North America with a New Junior Synonym (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) Stannard (1968, 111. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 29: 215-552) synonymized Haplo-thrips faiirei Hood under H. subtilissimus (Haliday). Both names have been used in United States (U.S.) and Canada for a thrips predaceous on mite and moth eggs. Hood (1914, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 27: 151-172) described H. faiirei from specimens collected in New York. Haplothnps subtilissimus (Haliday) is a Eu-ropean species recorded for the first time in North America from Pennsylvania and New Jersey by Moulton in 1927 (Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 22: 181-202). After examining the types and identified material of H. faurei. identified ma-terial of//, siihtilissinius from U.S. and Europe, and identified material of two other closely related species, //. chinensis Priesner from Japan and //. kurdjumovi Kamy from Europe, I conclude that faurei is a junior synonym of kurdjumovi (Kamy, 1913, Poltava Agric. Soc, Poltava Agric. Exp. Sta. work no. 18, part 7, pp. 3-10) (New Synonymy). R. zur Strassen (pers. comm.) also came to the same conclusion after examining the types oi faurei, kurdjumovi, and European material of kurdjumovi. The specimens examined from U.S. of subtilissimus are misiden-tifications of kurdjumovi. Haplothrips kurdjumovi was previously reported from Saskatchewan, Canada by zur Strassen (1973, Senckenb. Biol. 52: 247-254). Al-though both sexes of this species occur in Europe, only females have been found in U.S. and Canada. Stannard's (1968) description of subtilissimus represents kurdjumovi. Haplo-thrips kurdjumovi will run to subtilissii)n(s in his key to the species of Haplothrips. These two species closely resemble each other in color and morphology and differ only in a few details. Haplothrips kurdjumovi has a small, subapical tooth on the inner side of the foretarsus, the pronotum has poorly developed anteromarginal setae, mid-and hindtibiae are completely brown, and the mid-and hindtarsi are brown or yellowish brown. Haplothrips subtilissimus does not have a tooth on the foretarsus, the pronotum has usually well developed anteromarginal setae, the apical '/, of mid-and hindtibiae are yellowish brown, and the mid-and hindtarsi are yellow or yellowish brown. In Canada kurdjumovi reported previously as faurei or subtilissinnis preys on the eggs of moths, Carpocapsa pomouella (L.), Grapholitha molesta (Busck) and Spilonota ocellana (Denis & Schiffermuller), eggs of mites, Bryobia arborea Mor-gan & Anderson, B. praetiosa Koch, Panonychus ulmi (Koch) and Typhlodromus caudiglans Schuster, and on an eriophyid mite, .Aculus cormitus (Rdin\^s) (MacPhee, 1953, Can. Entomol. 85: 33-40; Putman, 1965, Can. Entomol. 97: 1208-1221). According to zur Strassen (pers. comm.), kurdjumovi preys on mites in Europe. Haplothrips kurdjumovi is known from Europe to Central Asia, Azores, Madeira Is., Bermuda, Canada (Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Sas-katchewan), and the U.S. (Delaware, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New
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