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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice (Psocodea) » Troctomorpha » Booklice (Liposcelididae) » Liposcelis

Genus Liposcelis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Unknown Liposcelid - Liposcelis - male Louse - Liposcelis Psocodea in dead pine - Liposcelis Insects from a Mac and Cheese box. - Liposcelis Psocodea - Liposcelis Book Lice - Liposcelis ornata Booklice inside wasp nest (Liposcelis?) - Liposcelis Booklice - Liposcelis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Psocodea (Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice)
Suborder Troctomorpha
Family Liposcelididae (Booklice)
Genus Liposcelis
Explanation of Names
Liposcelis Motschulsky 1852
'fat thigh'
Numbers
by far the largest genus in the family, with 24 spp. in NA(1) and >120 spp. worldwide(2)
Classification of NA fauna(3):
Genus Liposcelis Mots.
Section I
Group A: brunnea, deltachi, entomophila, fuscipes, hirsutoides, nasa, ornata, pallens, pallida, villosa
Group B: bicolor, decolor, lacinia, nigra, pearmani, rufa, silvarum, triocellata
Section II
Group C: formicaria, mendax
Group D: bostrychophila, corrodens, paeta, prenolepidis
Range
worldwide and across NA(2); many spp. are now nearly cosmopolitan or otherwise widely spread through agency of man, mostly with stored products(4)
Habitat
under bark, in ant nests, in homes(5)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Johnson K.P., Smith V.S. (2013) Psocodea species file online. Version 5.0
3.North American Psocoptera
Edward L. Mockford. 1993. Sandhill Crane Press.
4.Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology
Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.
5.Saville B., Alexander K. (yyyy) National Barkfly Recording Scheme (Britain and Ireland)
Contributed by Tim Loh on 24 February, 2009 - 3:12pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 12 February, 2013 - 8:23am

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