Stenocaecilius casarum (Badonnel, 1931)

DILIAN GEORGIEV, 2021, Additions and corrections to the list of Psocoptera of Unguja Island (Zanzibar, Tanzania), ZooNotes 187, pp. 1-3 : 2

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12658930

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12658944

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3275487E-FFB9-FFA8-FEC2-FA8AFEEFF8F6

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Stenocaecilius casarum (Badonnel, 1931)
status

 

Stenocaecilius casarum (Badonnel, 1931) View in CoL

Material examined: 27.2.2021, Michamwi Peninsula, coastal area with bushes and palms, from dry leaves of Cocos nucifera , S06 08 44.3 E39 29 21.1, 4 m a. s. l., 1 ♀, collected by beating the vegetation.

Body yellow except for medium brown areas on thoracic notal lobes and medium brown longitudinal stripe through midline of head from anteclypeus through vertex. Wings clear, elongate and slender. Sheath of spermathecal duct relatlvely long. The species appears to live exclusively on living or dead palm foliage ( Mockford 1993) ( Fig. 3 View Fig ).

It is known from Mozambique and many other localities as Bermuda Islands, USA, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Chile, Guianas, Venezuela, Indonesia, New Guinea, Easter Island, Hawaii, Melanesia, Micronesia (http://psocodea.speciesfile.org). New record for Tanzania.

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