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Lachesilla yacateca Mockford - Lachesilla yucateca - male
Copyright © 2011 Diane Young

Lachesilla yacateca Mockford - Lachesilla yucateca - Male
Welder Wildlife Refuge, San Patricio County, Texas, USA
April 26, 2011
Size: 1.7 mm
Welder Wildlife Refuge grass
Hides a bug with lots of class
With my sweep net I will get ya'
Lahesilla yucateca
Females come from near the ocean
To see that epiproct in motion
Will I get a note from =v=
For writing psocid poetry?

Mockford agrees with this ID. Described in "Taxonomy of the species of the Lachesilla rena complex" Ent. News 113(3):103-112, 2002. This is the first U.S. record for this species.

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Lachesilla yucateca Mockford - Lachesilla yucateca - male Lachesilla yacateca Mockford - Lachesilla yucateca - male
Contributed by Diane Young on 5 June, 2011 - 11:36am
Last updated 5 June, 2011 - 12:48pm

Comments

so many verse i won't concoct
to glorify that epiproct.
but please, Diane, please don you khaki
and fetch us female yucky-tucky

Moved from Lachesilla.
… v belov, 5 June, 2011 - 12:48pm

 
All Y'all Needs
is to add a little Miles Davis with a dose of Charlie Parker's yacky-yacateca sax and I'd start having visions of Jack Kerouac's return.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 12 June, 2011 - 2:41pm

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