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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)

NEW ZEALAND (including Kermadec Islands)
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
Echmepteryx hamiltoni (Tillyard)
Echmepteryx madagascariensis (Kolbe)
Echmepteryx stylesi Smithers
Pteroxanium kelloggi (Ribaga)

Trogiidae
[Cerobasis spec.]
Cerobasis guestfalica (Kolbe)
Lepinotus inquilinus Heyden
Lepinotus patruelis Pearman
Lepinotus reticulatus Enderlein
Lepinotus tasmaniensis Hickman
Trogium evansorum Smithers
Trogium pulsatorium (Linnaeus)

Psoquillidae
Rhyopsocus conformis Smithers

Psyllipsocidae
Dorypteryx longipennis Smithers
Psyllipsocus ramburii Selys-Longchamps

Liposcelididae
[Liposcelis spec.; see also under Liposcelis divinatoria (Müller)]
Liposcelis corrodens (Heymons)
Liposcelis pubescens Broadhead

Caeciliusidae
[Caecilius spec.]
Maoripsocus fastigatus (Smithers)
Maoripsocus semifuscatus Tillyard
Valenzuela flavistigma (Tillyard)
Valenzuela flavus (Smithers)
[Paracaecilius spec.]
Paracaecilius zelandicus (Tillyard)

Ectopsocidae
[Ectopsocus spec.]
Ectopsocus axillaris (Smithers)
Ectopsocus briggsi McLachlan
Ectopsocus californicus (Banks)
Ectopsocus coronatus Smithers
Ectopsocus dialeptus Thornton & Wong
Ectopsocus gracilis Thornton & Wong
Ectopsocus punctatus Thornton & Wong

Peripsocidae
Peripsocus maoricus (Tillyard)
Peripsocus milleri (Tillyard)
Peripsocus morulops (Tillyard)

Pseudocaeciliidae
Chorocaecilius brunellus (Tillyard)
Mepleres watti (Smithers)
[Austropsocus spec.]
Austropsocus apicipunctatus (Tillyard)
Austropsocus australis Thornton Wong & Smithers
Austropsocus delli Smithers
Austropsocus fasciatus Thornton, Wong & Smithers
Austropsocus hyalinus Thornton, Wong & Smithers
Austropsocus nimbosus Thornton, Wong & Smithers
Austropsocus ramsayi Thornton, Wong & Smithers
Austropsocus salmoni Smithers
Zelandopsocus formosellus Tillyard
Zelandopsocus kuscheli Thornton, Wong & Smithers
Zelandopsocus tectus Thornton, Wong & Smithers

Bryopsocidae
Bryopsocus angulatus (Smithers)
Bryopsocus townsendi (Smithers)

Philotarsidae
Haplophallus maculatus (Tillyard)
Aaroniella rawlingsi Smithers
Philotarsopsis basipunctata (Thornton, Wong & Smithers)
Philotarsopsis guttata (Tillyard)
Philotarsopsis parda (Thornton, Wong & Smithers)

Elipsocidae
Sabulopsocus tractuosus Smithers
Pentacladus eucalypti Enderlein
Propsocus pulchripennis (Perkins)
Spilopsocus annulatus Smithers
Spilopsocus avius Smithers
Spilopsocus stigmaticus (Tillyard)
Paedomorpha gayi Smithers

Psocidae
Blaste tillyardi Smithers

Myopsocidae
Myopsocus australis (Brauer)

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

Charles Lienhard
January 2004

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2004/06