ELIPSOCOIDEA, Yoshizawa, 2002

Yoshizawa, Kazunori, 2002, Phylogeny and higher classification of suborder Psocomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136 (3), pp. 371-400 : 396

ELIPSOCOIDEA , SUPERFAM. NOV.

Small to medium in size, about 1–4 mm in length. Body generally brown to blackish brown. Bark or stone surface dwellers.

Head with rounded vertex; postclypeus well bulged; epistomal suture with broad internal ridge; anteclypeus membranous or sclerotized narrowly. Wing polymorphism present, macropterous or apterous. Macropterous forewing venation of Caecilius- type; veins and wing margin with one row of setae, CuP sometimes bare. Hindwing scarcely setose; marginal setae present between R 2 +3 and R 4 +5 only; Rs and M + Cu separate or fused for short distance basally; Rs and M fused. Tarsi 3-segmented; claws with preapical tooth; pulvillus narrow. Abdomen without eversible vesicles ventrally. Male genitalia: Hypandrium simply rounded posteriorly. Phallosome simple; aedeagus pointed apically; parameres extended distally far beyond aedeagus; endophallus without rod-like sclerite. Female genitalia: Subgenital plate with less developed pair of tubercles on distal margin, each bearing some apical setae. Gonapophyses complete; ventral valve simple; dorsal valve narrowed apically, with or without subapical process; external valve enlarged .

Type genus: Elipsocus Hagen, 1866 .

Included family: Elipsocidae .