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Peripsocus female? - Peripsocus - female

Peripsocus female? - Peripsocus - Female
Tecolote Canyon Natural Park, San Diego County, California, USA
June 18, 2019
Size: 2 mm
Beat from pine tree and collected. CASENT 9096992.

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Moved
Moved from Peripsocus milleri.

Per A. Kouprianov at iNat:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27238123

Whatever it is, it is not a P. milleri see description in Lienhard (1998: 263-265) and
http://schemes.brc.ac.uk/barkfly/key/A1-B-C1-D5-E1.htm

Edit - follow up comment from this psocid person:

"The ID itself is not as much as a problem as the fact that this picture was taken as a title photo of P. milleri. It differs from whatever is known by the name of P. milleri in Europe by a nearly complete lack of any colour pattern at the fore wings except for some very weak darkening at some veins. A typical P. milleri female is much darker with a broad transverse shadow at the middle of the wing, opaque to dark pterostigm, and dark veins against transparent membrane in the distal half. This pattern is constant enough to be included in the key to the European species in Lienhard's 1998 monograph on Mediterranean Psocodea. Same goes for the original description of P. reductus by Badonnel (1943: 98 and accompanying key to the Peripsocus species and figs.). Mockford's monograph of N American Psocodea (1993) also places P. reductus among the "Group I : Forewings marked with distinct pattern. including either some colorless spots surrounded by pigmented membrane or colorless bands across wing In basal half from margin to margin > Subgroup A : Forewing with colorless bands in basal half but no colorless spots (i.e. all colorless regions extensive and reaching wing margin). Male clunlal comb of one or more rows of denticles. Distal process (egg guide) of female subgenital plate Indented In middle."

On a second thought, however, I have to admit that the characters of terminalia, that have to be trusted more, the shape of ovipositor valves and subgenital plate in your photograph and photograps / drawings published elsewhere show rather minute differences, which can be indeed ascribed to intraspecific variation or to differences in the degree of preparation compression.

Anyway, the choice of this image as the first option on the species page is rather unfortunate and partly misleading".

Moved
Moved from Peripsocus milleri.

 
Thanks =v=
I will know how to handle this situation in the future!

Ken
I found out that P. reductus is a junior synonym, so I created a species page for P. milleri (Tillyard). This one should be milleri. According to Mockford, males are only found in Chile and California. It sure would be great if you could locate some males and see if the phallosome matches Fig. 232 and clunial comb matches Fig. 706.

 
If reductus is a synonym of milleri
Then the correct solution is to edit the reductus page and change it to milleri. Please move these images back to the reductus page. Edit the reductus page so it is correct and then delete the new milleri page you just created. We do not want to create new pages and delete old pages. Thanks

 
Thank you
I learn something new ebery day.

Moved

Moved
Moved from Peripsocus.

Got it!
This is a new species for the guide: Peripsocus reductus Badonnel. The pattern in the forewing is very pale but does fit Fig 705 in "the book"; subgenital plate also fits with Fig.707.

 
reductus is a syn. of milleri Tillyard...
...per (1) here which has a much wides distribution in Europe and around S Pacific, acc'g to that page -- although Calif. records are not mentioned there, so i'm not sure what's going on... might be just an ommission
the synonymy apparently per Smithers (1994)

 
Thanks!
This species should be listed as P. milleri, so I created a new species page and moved it there. Don't know why the California records are not mentioned in the World Catalogue.

 
Tillyard ...
now there was an interesting fellow!

 
according to Mockford (1993)
This species is known from the San Francisco Bay area where is is probably introduced. Also known form Europe, Australia & Chile.

Moved
Moved from Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice.

Went back to this specimen and took photos of FW and subgenital plate. This keys pretty cleanly to Peripsocus, a female I believe, not sure I can find a perfect match in Mockford's book.

I have sent this one to Dr. Mockford
Doesn't look familiar to me.

 
Thanks -
Diane! I collected this one and can add specimen pics or send as necessary.