Ptycta emarginata, New, 1974

Schmidt, Evan R. & New, Timothy R., 2008, The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 71-152 : 139

Ptycta emarginata New

Ptycta emarginata New, 1974b: 299.

Ptycta cornigera New, 1974b: 301. --- Smithers, 1997: 119. Ptycta sp. M. Cole et al., 1989: 34.

Material examined. Site 90A, 1, 1, 20 Feb 88; site 90B, 5, 20 Feb 88; site 159A, 2, 2, 7 Dec 86; 1, 23 Mar 87; 1, 23 Feb 88; site 160, 2, 3, 23 Feb 88; site 252B, 1, 1 nymph, 29 Feb 88.

Distribution. Tasmania, Bass Strait Is, Victoria (unpublished), New South Wales and Western Australia.

Remarks. New (1974b) described both P. emarginata (single female) and P. cornigera (males only) from Western Australian material. Female specimens from Tasmania are considerably darker than the described specimen. Both sexes have a central stirrup mark on the frons, and the epicranial arm bears a broad brown band (less distinct in the female) which is not mentioned in either of the original descriptions. This species was taken only in dry coastal scrub and the heath understorey of Banksia serrata .