Stenocaecilius casarum (Badonnel, 1931)

DILIAN GEORGIEV, 2021, Additions and corrections to the list of Psocoptera of Unguja Island (Zanzibar, Tanzania), ZooNotes 187, pp. 1-3 : 2

Stenocaecilius casarum (Badonnel, 1931)

Material examined: 27.2.2021, Michamwi Peninsula, coastal area with bushes and palms, from dry leaves of Cocos nucifera , S06 08 44.3 E39 29 21.1, 4 m a. s. l., 1 ♀, collected by beating the vegetation.

Body yellow except for medium brown areas on thoracic notal lobes and medium brown longitudinal stripe through midline of head from anteclypeus through vertex. Wings clear, elongate and slender. Sheath of spermathecal duct relatlvely long. The species appears to live exclusively on living or dead palm foliage ( Mockford 1993) ( Fig. 3 ).

It is known from Mozambique and many other localities as Bermuda Islands, USA, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Chile, Guianas, Venezuela, Indonesia, New Guinea, Easter Island, Hawaii, Melanesia, Micronesia (http://psocodea.speciesfile.org). New record for Tanzania.

Figures

Fig. 3. The previously misidentified specimen of Stenocaecilius (from Georgiev 2021): S. casarum.