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barklice? - Echmepteryx hageni
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

barklice? - Echmepteryx hageni
Antrim, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
September 18, 2007
Size: 3mm

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Contributed by tom murray on 18 September, 2007 - 9:45pm
Last updated 21 September, 2007 - 9:09pm

Moved
Moved from Echmepteryx.
… tom murray, 21 September, 2007 - 9:10pm

Echmepteryx hageni
Another good find and ID. Since you found it in New Hampshire this would be Echmepteryx hageni; Family Lepidopsocidae. It is the only Echmepteryx in the North East. What an unusually looking Psocoptera, if it did not have a head I would think it a micro moth.
… Philip Careless, 21 September, 2007 - 6:20pm

Thanks Philip
I really appreciate your help getting these identified to species.
… tom murray, 18 September, 2007 - 10:09pm

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