Lepinotus reticulatus Enderlein, 1905

Schmidt, Evan R. & New, Timothy R., 2008, The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 71-152 : 82

Lepinotus reticulatus Enderlein

Lepinotus reticulatus Enderlein, 1905: 31 .

! Lepinotus reticulatus . --- Schmidt and Thornton, 1993: 148.

Material examined. Site 79, 1, 3 Feb 87; site 159A, 1, 9 Aug 86.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan.

Remarks. In Australia this species has been recorded from South Australia, Curtis I (Bass Strait) and recently from Wilsons Promontory, Victoria. Closer examination of the Wilsons Promontory material has revealed an error in identification; they are clearly conspecific with Tasmanian material of Lepinotus tasmaniensis .

Reticulate wings are not present on the material examined. The reticulate pattern on the vertex and postclypeus is absent and no parietal glands are evident. The sensillum on the second segment of the maxillary palp ( Enderlein, 1905, plate 2, fig. 19) appears similar in size to that of Lepinotus tasmaniensis , which is smaller than that of Lepinotus huoni . The paraprocts possess a ventral sclerotised bar as found in Lepinotus huoni , but this is absent in Lepinotus tasmaniensis and Lepinotus stoneae . The referral of this material to L. reticulatus is provisional.