Natural History Museum of the City of Geneva
Department of Arthropodology and Entomology I

UPDATE: If you would like to make an update to a particular checklist and the corresponding bibliography (new records and nomenclatural or taxonomic changes) you can search the Additions and Corrections to the World Catalogue published in Psocid News, No. 4, 5, 6 etc. and available online at the PsocoNet Homepage or the Synthesis of Parts 1-10 (pdf, 2.2M).

NOTE: Changes published in Psocid News under the heading "Corrections to Lienhard & Smithers, 2002" have already been integrated in the following checklists, but not the "Additions to the Catalogue". Only published distributional records are taken into consideration for these checklists; detailed bibliographical references to these records are listed in the "World Catalogue" for each species.

FOSSILS: See special list of Fossil Psocoptera (species only known from fossil records are not mentioned in the corresponding country list of the recent fauna).

RECENT FAUNA: See list of countries below and go to the species checklist you need. All countries mentioned in the World Catalogue are listed in the following.

COUNTRIES (and islands) mentioned in the World Catalogue of Psocoptera (Lienhard & Smithers, 2002).
Geographical regions defined for the World Catalogue
(See also further comments in Lienhard & Smithers, 2002: p. xxxiii)

• (0) Geographical distribution not known
• (I) Western Palaearctic (East to Ural Mts, including Africa North of Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula)
• (II) Atlantic Ocean (islands)
• (III) North America
• (IV) Central America (from Mexico to Panama, including the Antilles)
• (V) South America
• (VI) Africa (South of Sahara, including Madagascar)
• (VII) Indian Ocean (islands)
• (VIII) Asia (Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental, including New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago)
• (IX) Australia and New Zealand (including adjacent islands)
• (X) Pacific Ocean (islands)

(0): Geographical distribution not known: Psocidae: Psocidus elegantulus (Banks)

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• Bahamas
• Canada
• USA

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(VIII): Asia (Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental, including New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago)

Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) Christmas Island (Aust.) Hong Kong (see China) India Indonesia (for Irian Jaya, see also New Guinea) Japan Korea Macao (see China) Malaysia Mongolia

Myanmar (see Burma) Nepal New Guinea (including Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville) Pakistan Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan (see also China) Thailand USSR (former) [= Russia (Asiatic part, including Kuril Islands), Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan]. NOTE: For Western Palaearctic parts of USSR (former), see region (I). Vietnam

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• Australia (including Tasmania, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Philip Island)
• New Zealand (including Kermadec Islands)
• Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand

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(X): Pacific Ocean (islands)

Easter Island Fiji Galapagos Hawaii Melanesia Micronesia New Caledonia (including Loyalty Islands)

New Hebrides Pacific (air-borne) Polynesia Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga

Psocoptera: World Catalogue and Bibliography / Classification / Subject bibliography / Department of Arthropodology and Entomology I

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