Psocidae

Schmidt, Evan R. & New, Timothy R., 2008, The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 71-152 : 134

Key to Tasmanian genera of Psocidae

1.

– Pterostigma of fore wing elongate, narrow Tanystigma Smithers

Pterostigma of fore wing normal 2

2. Phallosome frame posteriorly open, dorsal valve of gonapophyses with rudimentary apical spine * Blaste Kolbe

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3.

– Phallosome frame closed, dorsal valve of gonapophyses with apical spine well developed 3

Phallosome with apical pair of double spines, subgenital plate lobe with lateral pair of pigmented bands

Clematostigma Enderlein

Phallosome lacking apical pair of double spines, subgenital plate lobe medially uniformly pigmented

Ptycta Enderlein

* The apical spine on the dorsal valve of the gonapophyses of Blaste lignicola (Enderlein) is well developed.

Blaste Kolbe

Blaste Kolbe, 1883b: 79 . Type species: Blaste juvenilis Kolbe.

Key to Tasmanian species of Blaste

1. Male epiproct with lateral anteriorly directed lobes, dorsal flap absent; subgenital plate with sinuous row of preapical setae lignicola (Enderlein)

– Male epiproct lacking anteriorly directed lobes, dorsal flap present; subgenital plate lacking row of preapical setae 2

2. Hypandrium lacking lateral “horns”; subgenital plate lobe short, apical margin emarginate panops Smithers

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3.

– Hypandrium with conspicuous lateral “horns”; subgenital plate lobe well developed, apical margin rounded or transverse 3

Hypandrium with median tongue and longitudinal ridges with apical group of spines; anterior pigmented arms of subgenital plate not divergent taylori New

Hypandrium with rounded median apex; anterior pigmented arms of subgenital plate divergent 4

4. Fore wing with apical brown bands bistriata Schmidt and Thornton

– Fore wing lacking strong apical pattern 5 5. Fore wing cell An basally with brown pigment falcifer Smithers