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Published: 2012-05-08
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A new genus of Lachesillidae (Psocoptera) from the Peruvian Amazonia

Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-153, 04510 México, D. F. MÉXICO
Psocoptera Lachesillidae

Abstract

Mockford & Sullivan (1986), proposed a higher classification of the psocopteran family Lachesillidae, in which they established the subfamilies Lachesillinae and Eolachesillinae. In the latter subfamily they created two tribes, Eolachesillini and Graphocaeciliini, and dealt with the systematics of the latter. In the Graphocaeciliini they recognised eight genera, including six new genera, and 29 species in total. Subsequently, García Aldrete (2006) erected the genus Waoraniella from the Ecuadorian Amazonia, and established for it the tribe Waoraniellini, in the Eolachesillinae; García Aldrete & Mockford (2011 b) described a second species of that genus, from the Reserva Florestal Ducke, near Manaus, Brazil, and indicated that a third species is known to occur in the Peruvian Amazonia, near Iquitos; finally, García Aldrete & Mockford (2011 a) described the genus Amazolachesilla, in the Graphocaeciliini, from the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

References

  1. García Aldrete, A.N. (2006) New genera of Psocoptera (Insecta), from Mexico, Belize and Ecuador (Psoquillidae, Ptiloneuridae, Lachesillidae). Zootaxa, 1319, 1–14.

    García Aldrete, A.N. & Mockford, E.L. (2011 a) Amazolachesilla, a new genus of Eolachesillinae (Insecta: Psocodea:”Psocoptera”: Lachesillidae) from Amazonas, Brazil. Acta Amazonica, 41(4), 553–556.

    García Aldrete, A.N. & Mockford, E.L. (2011 b) A new species of Waoraniella (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Lachesillidae) from the Reserva Florestal Ducke, Amazonas, Brazil. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n. s.), 27 (1), 123–127.

    Mockford, E.L. & Sullivan, D.M. (1986) Systematics of the graphocaeciliine psocids with a proposed higher classification of the family Lachesillidae (Psocoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 112 (1), 1–80.