Lepinotus inquilinus, Heyden, 1850

Smithers, C. N., 2007, Lord Howe Island Psocoptera (Insecta), Records of the Australian Museum 59 (1), pp. 9-26 : 15

Lepinotus inquilinus v. Heyden

Lepinotus inquilinus Heyden, 1850 . Stettin ent. Z. 11: 84.

Paradoxides psocoides Motschulsky, 1851 . Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 24(2): 510.

Paradoxenus psocoides (Motschulsky) . Motschulsky, 1852. Etudes entomologiques de 1852 p. 19.

Clothilla inquilina (Heyden) . Brauer & Löw, 1857.

Neuroptera austriaca . Wien. p. 32.

Clothilla picea Hagen, 1861 . Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 4: 8.

Synonymy: Enderlein, 1905. Res. Swedish Exp. Egypt and White Nile p. 25.

Atropos inquilina (Heyden) . Kolbe, 1880. Jber. westf. Prov.Ver. Wiss. Kunst. 8: 132.

Atropos sericea Kolbe, 1883b . Stettin. ent . Z. 44: 86.

Lepinotus piceus (Hagen) . Hagen, 1883. Stettin. ent . Z. 44: 314.

Atropos distincta Kolbe, 1888 . Jaresb. Ver. f. Naturk. Zwickau 1887: 190, 191.

Atropos picea (Hagen) . Kolbe, 1888. Jaresb.Ver. f. Naturk. Zwickau 1887: 190, 191.

Clothilla distincta (Kolbe) . Tetens, 1891. Ent. Nachr. 17: 372.

Lepinotus sericeus (Kolbe) . Tetens, 1891. Ent. Nachr. 17: 373, 384.

Cuixa canaria Navas, 1927 . Bol. Soc. ent . ital. 59: 151.

Synonymy: Broadhead, 1949. Ent. mon. Mag. 85: 80.

Material studied. 6??, 8!!, Mt. Gower, 850 m, leaf litter, mossy forest, 2.ii.1979, T. Kingston. 4??, 9!!, Intermediate Hill, 100 m, leaf litter, Chionanthus quadristamineus , Cleistocalyx fullagarii , 24.i.1979, T. Kingston. 2??, 6!!, same data, 19.i.1979, T. Kingston. 1?, Old Settlement, 80 m, leaf litter, Drypetes deplanchei , Cryptocarya triplinervis , 18.iv.1979, T. Kingston. 2??, 3!!, Little Slope, 50 m, leaf litter, Howea forsteriana , 7.i.1979, T. Kingston. same data, 20.xii.1979, T. Kingston. 2!!. Big Slope, 20 m, leaf litter, Howea forsteriana , 28.iii.1979, T. Kingston. 1!, Stevens Reserve, 5 m, leaf litter, Howea forsteriana , 30.ix.1978, T. Kingston. 1!, North Bay, 5 m, leaf litter, Howea forsteriana , 15.xi.1979, T. Kingston. 1?, North End Big Pocket, Mt. Gower, ex leaf litter, Hedyscepe canterburyana , Dysoxylum pachyphyllum , 26.iv.2002, I. Hutton. 1!, Little Island, below Far Flats, 10.viii.2001, I. Hutton. 1?, Malabar Hill track, half way to Kims Lookout, 10.viii.2001, I. Hutton.

Distribution. First record for Lord Howe Island. The large number of previously published records indicate an almost cosmopolitan distribution for this species which is found indoors and in the wild.