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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice (Psocodea) » Outer Barklice (Ectopsocidae) » Ectopsocus » Ectopsocus briggsi
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Bark Louse - Ectopsocus briggsi
Copyright © 2008 Cheryl Moorehead

Bark Louse - Ectopsocus briggsi
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
January 13, 2008
Size: 2.5mm
Found on a yard waste container. Looks similar to
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Contributed by Cheryl Moorehead on 14 January, 2008 - 9:51am
Last updated 1 April, 2009 - 8:21pm

Probably Ectopsocus briggsi
Ed Mockford det.
Moved from Ectopsocus.
… v belov, 1 April, 2009 - 8:21pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Barklice and Booklice.
… Cheryl Moorehead, 18 January, 2008 - 8:04am login or register to post comments

Ectopsocus sp.
Cheryl you may be right. The lack of a Cubital Loop places this small clear winged Psocopteran in the Family Ectopsocidae and your location (in North America) suggests it is from the genus Ectopsocus. There are three species that live in Washington State and the species you selected is one of those three E. briggsi. I don't have the skills to tell them apart... yet but hope my comment is of some help.

I should hire you to collect the psocoptera you find a mail them to me. It would be nice to have these species in our collections.
… Philip Careless, 17 January, 2008 - 7:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Well, I was planning on collecting Springtails for a project I'm going to be working on...the locations I find those are very near the locations I find the bark lice. Please email me with how you would like them preserved, and where to send them, and I'll see what I can do. This project I mentioned isn't going to start until around March, though.
… Cheryl Moorehead, 18 January, 2008 - 8:03am login or register to post comments

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