ASIOPSOCOIDEA

Yoshizawa, Kazunori, 2002, Phylogeny and higher classification of suborder Psocomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136 (3), pp. 371-400 : 398

SUPERFAMILY ASIOPSOCOIDEA

Small to medium in size, about 2–3 mm in length. Generally brownish in colour. Bark dwellers. Sexual dimorphism present, male ( Notiopsocus ) or female ( Asiopsocus ) often apterous.

Head: clypeus less bulged; epistomal suture without broad internal ridge; anteclypeus desclerotized; distal margin of labrum with small projections laterally; mandible variable, its outer margin more or less angled; lacinia with subapical broadened region, lacinial tip broad with denticle. Forewing as for Caeciliusetae ; pterostigma shallow; areola postica present or absent ( Notiopsocus ). Hindwing veins glabrous; wing margin glabrous or setose from apex to posterior margin. Pulvillus variable, sometimes absent. Abdomen without eversible vesicles on ventral surface. Male genitalia: as for Caeciliusetae . Female genitalia: gonapophyses reduced; ventral valve more or less reduced; dorsal valve reduced to membranous lobe; external valve reduced but somewhat narrowed.

Type genus: Asiopsocus Günther, 1968 .

Included family: Asiopsocidae .