Ectopsocidae

Taxobox
name = Ectopsocidae


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Psocoptera
subordo = Psocomorpha
infraordo = Homilopsocidea
familia = Ectopsocidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
* "Ectianoculus"
* "Ectopsocopsis"
* "Ectopsocus"
* "Mascaropsocus"

Ectopsocidae is a family of Psocoptera (book lice or bark lice) belonging to the suborder Psocomorpha. Members of the family are characterised by their absence of an areola postica in their wings, like in the family Peripsocidae. The family includes fewer than 200 species, most of them in the genus "Ectopsocus".

ources

*Lienhard, C. & Smithers, C. N. 2002. Psocoptera (Insecta): World Catalogue and Bibliography. Instrumenta Biodiversitatis, vol. 5. Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Genève.