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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice (Psocodea) » Trogiomorpha » Atropetae » Scaly-winged Barklice (Lepidopsocidae) » Echmepteryx » Echmepteryx (Thylacopsis) madagascariensis (Echmepteryx madagascariensis)
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Possibly Echmepteryx madagascariensis - Echmepteryx madagascariensis
Copyright © 2017 Susan Leach Snyder

Possibly Echmepteryx madagascariensis - Echmepteryx madagascariensis
Naples , Collier County, Florida, USA
January 13, 2017
Size: 2.1 mm
This book louse was living in nesting material made from shredded palmetto fibers.

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Possibly Echmepteryx madagascariensis - Echmepteryx madagascariensis Possibly Echmepteryx madagascariensis - Echmepteryx madagascariensis Possibly Echmepteryx madagascariensis - Echmepteryx madagascariensis
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Contributed by Susan Leach Snyder on 7 February, 2017 - 5:04pm
Last updated 17 February, 2017 - 5:13pm

Moved
Moved from Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice.
… Aaron Hunt, 17 February, 2017 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

Yes, you are right..
must be E. madagascariensis.
… Diane Young, 8 February, 2017 - 1:48pm login or register to post comments

Could you take a lateral shot?
That would help with ID.
… Diane Young, 8 February, 2017 - 8:26am login or register to post comments

 
I just added
a lateral view. Perhaps this will confirm the ID?
… Susan Leach Snyder, 8 February, 2017 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

 
examined my only specimen...
Your images closely resemble the appearance of my specimen from Hillsboro Co. Florida. Your specimen is Echmepteryx madascariensis.
… Diane Young, 9 February, 2017 - 11:04am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks very
much for the confirmation, Diane.
… Susan Leach Snyder, 9 February, 2017 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

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