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Mystery female psocid - Psocus crosbyi - female

Mystery female psocid - Psocus crosbyi - Female
Cache Creek Natural Area, High Bridge Trailhead, Colusa County, California, USA
March 27, 2021
Size: 3 mm
I beat this somewhat short-winged barklouse from Quercus and collected it. It has two-segmented tarsi and no hairs on the wings that I can find. The wing pattern is interesting and looks distinctive - a dark cross-bar in the mid-wing and some other spots and vein M appears 4-branched? I tentatively keyed it out to the region of Peripsocidae or Elipsocidae, but couldn't find a match in Mockford... Help! :)

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Thanks -
Diane!!

THis one keys to ...
Psocus crosbyi, brachypterous female.

Scott -
Shreve thinks this is in the family Psocidae with an abnormal distal wing... see iNat link here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72487862

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