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Psocoptera checklists
  • (A) Fossils (essentially from Amber and Copal)
  • (I) Western Palaearctic
  • (II) Atlantic Ocean (islands)
  • (III) North America
  • (IV) Central America
  • (V) South America
  • (VI) Africa
  • (VII) Indian Ocean (islands)
  • (VIII) Asia (Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental)
  • (IX) Australia and New Zealand
  • (X) Pacific Ocean (islands)

SOUTH AFRICA
Checklist of Psocoptera according to the World Catalogue (Lienhard & Smithers, 2002)

If you would like to make an update to this 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.

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

Trogiidae
Cerobasis guestfalica (Kolbe)
Lepinotus lepinotoides (Ribaga)
Lepinotus patruelis Pearman

Psoquillidae
Rhyopsocus afer (Badonnel)

Amphientomidae
Nephax capensis Pearman
Stimulopalpus africanus Enderlein

Liposcelididae
Belaphotroctes traegardhi (Ribaga)
Embidopsocus enderleini (Ribaga)
Liposcelis bostrychophila Badonnel
Liposcelis brunnea Motschulsky
Liposcelis prenolepidis (Enderlein)
Liposcelis transvaalensis (Enderlein)

Pachytroctidae
Pachytroctes australis Ribaga
Pachytroctes brunneus Ribaga
Peritroctes natalensis Ribaga

Caeciliusidae
[Caecilius spec.]
Isophanes capeneri Smithers
Maoripsocus africanus (Ribaga)
Stenocaecilius congolensis (Badonnel)
Stenocaecilius oxycopeus (Ribaga)
Fuelleborniella capensis Enderlein

Amphipsocidae
Afropsocus natalensis Mockford
Harpezoneura multifurcata Enderlein

Ectopsocidae
Ectopsocopsis mozambica (Badonnel)
Ectopsocus briggsi McLachlan

Peripsocidae
Peripsocus setosus Smithers

Pseudocaeciliidae
Pseudocaecilius africanus Badonnel
Pseudocaecilius citricola (Ashmead)

Philotarsidae
Haplophallus orientalis Thornton

Elipsocidae
Elipsocus capensis Smithers
Propsocus pulchripennis (Perkins)
Lesneia capensis Badonnel
Lesneia stuckenbergi Badonnel

Mesopsocidae
Hexacyrtoma capense Enderlein
Mesopsocus broadheadi Badonnel
Mesopsocus clarki Badonnel
Mesopsocus enderleini Badonnel
Mesopsocus incomitatus Smithers
Mesopsocus marikovskyi Badonnel
Mesopsocus meinanderi Badonnel
Mesopsocus mockfordi Badonnel
Mesopsocus thorntoni Badonnel
Metapsocus brevilobus Lienhard
Metapsocus kolbei Badonnel
Metapsocus wittmeri Lienhard
Microtrichipsocus shiffi (Smithers)
Rhinopsocus arduus Badonnel & Lienhard
Rhinopsocus badonneli Lienhard
Rhinopsocus distinctus (Smithers)
Rhinopsocus gibber Lienhard

Psocidae
Blaste monserrati Baz
Blaste similis Broadhead & Richards
Blaste simillima (Enderlein)
Lasiopsocus brevipilosus Enderlein
Psococerastis thomasseti Pearman
Pearmania fucata (Pearman)
Pearmania usambarana (Enderlein)
Psocidus grisescens (McLachlan)
Psocidus guttulatus Pearman
Ptycta arandae Baz

Psilopsocidae
[Psilopsocus spec.]

Myopsocidae
Lichenomima capeneri (Smithers)
Lichenomima maxima Smithers
Myopsocus angolensis (Badonnel)
Myopsocus cryptus (Smithers)
Myopsocus magnificus (Smithers)

Psocoptera: World Catalogue and Bibliography / Classification / Subject bibliography / Worldwide country checklists of species

Charles Lienhard
January 2004

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2004/06