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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice (Psocodea) » Trogiomorpha » Atropetae » Granary Booklice (Trogiidae) » Trogium » Larger Pale Booklouse (Trogium pulsatorium)
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unknown bug - Trogium pulsatorium
Copyright © 2009 Lynn Bergen

unknown bug - Trogium pulsatorium
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
August 22, 2009
Size: 1 mm est.
I found this on an unused screen porch. There is a little colony of them living on a piece of paper with what looks like scattered bug parts.
They seem to be eating the "bug parts" and I have seen them push another away on approach.
They scoot around quickly. They appear to be quite flat, but I was not able to get a lateral view.
This looks to me like an immature, I'll post another one that looks more mature.

Note the red stripe and yellow eyes. I haven't seen these features on the Psocids in the guide.

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unknown bug - Trogium pulsatorium unknown bug - Trogium pulsatorium
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Contributed by Lynn Bergen on 22 August, 2009 - 7:11pm
Last updated 8 September, 2009 - 6:04pm

Trogium pulsatorium (Linnaeus)
Ed Mockford det.

[hard to believe, but we didn't have this cosmopolitan sp. in the guide yet -- thanks, Lynn! =v=]
Moved from Barklice and Booklice.
… v belov, 8 September, 2009 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

Thanks Skip!
Moved from ID Request.
… Lynn Bergen, 23 August, 2009 - 5:12am login or register to post comments

Psocid
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… Skip Blanchard, 22 August, 2009 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

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