Rhyopsocoides, García, Alfonso N. & Aldrete, 2006

García, Alfonso N. & Aldrete, 2006, New genera of Psocoptera (Insecta), from Mexico, Belize and Ecuador (Psoquillidae, Ptiloneuridae, Lachesillidae), Zootaxa 1319, pp. 1-14 : 2

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.273553

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6253088

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Rhyopsocoides
status

gen. nov.

Rhyopsocoides View in CoL n.gen.

Diagnosis. Belonging in the Psoquillidae . Body elongate, dorso­ventrally flattened, Trogium ­looking. Forewing pterostigma closed basally, M3 branched. With a biramous sclerite associated to spermapore. Spermathecal glands spherical, with pores and “finger print” marks. Differing from Balliella in having spermathecal glands spherical, not mushroom­shaped, in having forewing pterostigma closed basally, with a medium sized closed cell, with M1+2 and M3 branched, in having forewing about four times as long as wide, in lacking a small closed cell in hindwing, and in having a biramous sclerite associated to the spermapore. Differing from Eosilla , Psoquilla , Rhyopsoculus , Rhyopsocus , and Rhyopsocidus , in having a medium sized closed cell in forewing, in having M3 branched, in having forewing about four times as long as wide, in having forewing hyaline, with well defined veins, and in having a large, biramous sclerite associated to the spermapore.

Type species: Rhyopsocoides typhicolus n. sp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Psocodea

Family

Psoquillidae

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