Lachesilla bernardi Badonnel, 1938

Lienhard, Charles & Mifsud, David, 2015, Psocids from Malta (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’), with new synonymy for Peripsocus stagnivagus based on the discovery of its first Palaearctic male, Zootaxa 3936 (2), pp. 251-260 : 254

Lachesilla bernardi Badonnel, 1938

Material examined. Malta, Għadira beach, 15. vi. 1999, 1 ♂, BM; Fomm ir-Riħ, 29. x. 2014, 1 ♂, beating vegetation, DM; Verdala Palace, 11.vii.– 1. viii. 2014, 1 ♂, Malaise trap, DM.

Notes. A new record for the Maltese Islands. This is a circum-Mediterranean species, mainly associated with dead branches of different trees and shrubs, occasionally found also on dead leaves of herbaceous plants or in leaf litter ( Lienhard 1998).