Elipsocidae is a
family
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of
Psocodea
Psocodea is a taxonomic group of insects comprising the bark lice, book lice and parasitic lice. It was formerly considered a superorder, but is now generally considered by entomologists as an order. Despite the greatly differing appearance of ...
(formerly
Psocoptera
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) belonging to the
infraorder
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Homilopsocidea
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.
Members of the family have a free areola postica. Many species are
apterous (without wings). The family includes about 130 species in more than 30 genera.
Genera
These 32 genera belong to the family Elipsocidae:
* ''
Antarctopsocus''
c g
* ''
Ausysium''
c g
* ''
Clinopsocus''
c g
* ''
Cuneopalpus
''Cuneopalpus'' is a genus of damp barklice in the family Elipsocidae. There is one described species in the genus, ''Cuneopalpus cyanops''. ''C. cyanops'' is found in Benelux, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Ce ...
''
Badonnel, 1943 i c g b
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Diademadrilus''
c g
* ''
Drymopsocus''
Smithers, 1963 c g
* ''
Elipsocus
''Elipsocus'' is a genus of damp barklice in the family Elipsocidae. There are more than 20 described species in ''Elipsocus''.
Species
These 27 species belong to the genus ''Elipsocus'':
* '' Elipsocus abdominalis'' Reuter, 1904
* '' Elipsocus ...
''
Hagen, 1866 i c g b
* ''
Euryphallus''
c g
* ''
Gondwanapsocus''
c g
* ''
Hemineura''
c g
* ''
Kilauella''
c g
* ''
Metelipsocus''
c g
* ''
Nepiomorpha
''Brephomorpha'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Cossidae described by David Stephen Fletcher in 1982. It contains only one species, ''Brephomorpha cineraria'', described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1945, which is found in Australia, whe ...
''
Pearman, 1936 i c g
* ''
Nothopsocus''
c g
* ''
Onychophallus''
c g
* ''
Paedomorpha''
c g
* ''
Palistreptus''
c g
* ''
Palmicola''
Mockford, 1955 i c g
* ''
Pentacladus''
c g
* ''
Prionotodrilus''
c g
* ''
Propsocus''
McLachlan, 1866 i c g b
* ''
Pseudopsocus''
c g
* ''
Psocophloea''
c g
* ''
Reuterella''
Enderlein, 1903 i c g b
* ''
Roesleria''
c g
* ''
Sandrapsocus''
c g
* ''
Sinelipsocus''
c g
* ''
Spilopsocus''
c g
* ''
Telmopsocus''
c g
* ''
Villopsocus''
c g
* ''
Weddellopsocus''
c g
* ''
Yuntapsocus''
c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[ c = Catalogue of Life,][ g = GBIF,][ b = Bugguide.net]
Sources
* Lienhard, C. & Smithers, C. N. 2002. Psocoptera (Insecta): World Catalogue and Bibliography. Instrumenta Biodiversitatis, vol. 5. Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Genève.
External links
{{Taxonbar, from=Q1952043
Psocoptera families