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Genus Echmepteryx

Echmepteryx hageni Echmepteryx? - Echmepteryx hageni lepidopsocid - Echmepteryx hageni inside house - Echmepteryx hageni Very skittish barklouse - Echmepteryx hageni small barklouse – Echmepteryx hageni? - Echmepteryx hageni Lepidopsocidae - Scaly-winged Barklice, dorsal - Echmepteryx hageni Unknown Bark Louse - Echmepteryx youngi
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Psocodea (Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice)
Suborder Trogiomorpha
Infraorder Atropetae
Family Lepidopsocidae (Scaly-winged Barklice)
Genus Echmepteryx
Explanation of Names
Echmepteryx Aaron 1886
Numbers
4 spp. in 2 subgenera in NA(1); ~80 spp. in 5 subgenera worldwide(2)
Remarks
our only representative of the nominate subfamily that contains >120 spp. in 3 genera(2)