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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice (Psocodea) » Troctomorpha » Tropical Barklice (Amphientomidae) » Stimulopalpus » Stimulopalpus japonicus
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Unknown Insect - Stimulopalpus japonicus
Copyright © 2020 Flown (FKA Lisa) Kimmerling

Unknown Insect - Stimulopalpus japonicus
Chatsworth, Murray County, Georgia, USA
September 15, 2020
On a large mossy/lichen-covered rock. Several of them were "dancing" in a coordinated, bizzare unison.
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Contributed by Flown (FKA Lisa) Kimmerling on 27 September, 2020 - 9:50am
Last updated 28 September, 2020 - 1:54pm

Moved
Moved from Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 28 September, 2020 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

I think Ken is right...
The shape of the head is not like Psocidae. I'd like to know more about the behavior you observed. How many individuals were "dancing" in unison?
… Diane Young, 28 September, 2020 - 11:16am login or register to post comments

 
Dancing behavior
Maybe a 2 to 3 dozen of them. It was on a lichen/moss covered rock in a mixed forest (with an adjacent wetland).
… Flown (FKA Lisa) Kimmerling, 28 September, 2020 - 1:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Maybe this one:

… Ken Wolgemuth, 27 September, 2020 - 10:33am login or register to post comments

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