''Novopsocus magnus'' is a species of

Pseudocaeciliidae Pseudocaeciliidae is a family (biology), family of Psocodea (formerly Psocoptera) belonging to the suborder Psocomorpha. The name stems from a superficial resemblance to the distantly related family Caeciliusidae (formerly Caeciliidae). The fami ...

that lives on the island of

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

. Males of this species were first thought by Thornton (1984) to be males of ''N. stenopterus'', but Cuénoud (2008) showed that it is indeed a separate species by identifying real males of ''N. stenopterus'' and actual females of ''N. magnus''. It is the largest species of the genus, and its males have peculiar antennae, with a first flagellar segment strongly broadened and flattened.

References

* Thornton, I. W. B. 1984. An unusual psocopteran from new Guinea and its relationships within the Philotarsidae. International journal of entomology. 26: 378-385. * Cuénoud, P. 2008. A revision of the New Guinean genus Novopsocus Thornton (Psocoptera, Pseudocaeciliidae) with the description of two new species.

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