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

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)

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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.

Lepidopsocidae
Thylacella fasciata Badonnel

Trogiidae
Lepinotus angolensis Badonnel

Psyllipsocidae
Dorypteryx domestica (Smithers)
Psyllipsocus ramburii Selys-Longchamps

Electrentomidae
Manicapsocus alettae Smithers

Amphientomidae
Stimulopalpus africanus Enderlein

Liposcelididae
Liposcelis entomophila (Enderlein)
Liposcelis paeta Pearman

Amphipsocidae
Capillopsocus smithersorum Mockford

Ectopsocidae
Ectopsocus briggsi McLachlan

Elipsocidae
Elipsocus ustulatus Smithers
Propsocus pulchripennis (Perkins)

Mesopsocidae
Mesopsocidus alienatus (Smithers)
Mesopsocus latreillei Badonnel
Mesopsocus lienhardi Badonnel
Mesopsocus smithersi Badonnel
Mesopsocus tetensi Badonnel
Mesopsocus tumorosus Smithers

Psocidae
Blaste peringueyi (Enderlein)
Pearmania usambarana (Enderlein)

Myopsocidae
Lichenomima pauliani Badonnel
Myopsocus magnificus (Smithers)

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

Charles Lienhard
January 2004

Natural History Museum of the
City of Geneva
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève
2004/06