Thread subject: Diptera.info :: pscopoptera sp.

Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 22-10-2008 10:08
#1
hi otherinsectsforum,

I found this little pscocoptera (1.5-2mm) on bark of Salix.
Is it possible to got this id?, the picture isn't brilliant..
Trichopsocus sp. ?

place: Amsterdam forest
date: 17-10-2008
Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 22-10-2008 10:14

Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 22-10-2008 10:08
#2
picture 2
Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 22-10-2008 10:09

Posted by Jan Willem on 22-10-2008 12:40
#3
I would expect this to be Ectopsocus sp. (E. petersi or E. briggsi).

Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 22-10-2008 22:26
#4
I thought it was perhabs Trichopsocus sp., because of the long hairs on the thorax..

but Ectopsocus could have these also?

Posted by Jan Willem on 23-10-2008 06:47
#5
Hi Robert,
I will have a look in my Psocoptera literature tonight. I have to admit though that I don't recall having seen those long hairs on the thorax in the Ectopsocus specimens I studied.

Posted by Jan Willem on 23-10-2008 18:45
#6
Hi Robert,

Although it's a bit difficult to see in your pictures, it looks like the areola postica in the forewing is absent. That would mean it can't be a member of the family Trichopsocidae.