Ectopsocus petersi Smithers, 1978

Ostrovsky, A. M., 2024, The barkfly (Insecta: Psocodea) fauna of the Republic of Belarus, Russian Entomological Journal 33 (1), pp. 1-8 : 5

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15298/rusentj.33.1.01

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10952679

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B7C1236-147E-1C05-0917-B667D506FD5D

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Felipe

scientific name

Ectopsocus petersi Smithers, 1978
status

 

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MATERIAL EXAMINED. Buda-Koshelevo district , between Uza and Rudenets villages, 52°35'30"N, 30°49'01"E, 138 m a.s.l., spontaneous landfill of household waste, among the reeds, 25.10.2020, 2♀, collected by hand with exhauster GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION. Almost cosmopolitan species, but there is no information about its findings in neighboring countries with Belarus in the available literature.

NOTES. Small (1.5– 2 mm) barkfly with conspicuous dark spots on forewings. Males always have wings longer than abdomen (macropterous) but females occur in both long and short-winged (brachypterous) forms. This species found on very wide range of trees, shrubs and other microhabitats.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Psocodea

Family

Ectopsocidae

Genus

Ectopsocus

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