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Genus Caecilius Curtis, 1837

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Genus Caecilius Curtis, 1837

  • Caecilius Curtis, J. 1837. British Entomology. London. 1823–1840 (Psocids: Pt 14: 648–651) [648].
    Type species:
     Psocus fuscopterus Latreille, 1799 by subsequent designation, see Mockford, E.L. 1969. The genus Caecilius (Psocoptera: Caeciliidae). Part III. The North American species of the alcinus, caligonus and subflavus groups. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 95: 77-151 pls 1-16 [78]
  • Valenzuela Navás, L. 1924. Excursio entomologica al Cabrerés (Girona-Barcelona). Trabajos Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Madrid (Zoology) 4(10): 1-59 6 figs 1 map [Psocoptera: pp. 20–22 fig. 1] [20].
    Type species:
     Valenzuela marianus Navas, 1924 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Meinander, M. 1979. Revision of the European Psocoptera recorded by Navás. Miscellània Zoològica (Barcelona) 5: 59-67 [61]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Norfolk Island
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: SE coastal

Distribution References

  • Smithers, C.N. 1972. The classification and phylogeny of the Psocoptera. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 14: 1-349 [117]

General References

ICZN 1996. Opinion 1830. Caeciliidae Kolbe, 1880 (Insecta, Psocoptera): spelling emended to Caeiliusidae, so removing the homonymy with Caeciliidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Amphibia, Gymnophiona). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 53(1): 68-69 (emendation of family name to Caeciliusidae)