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Species Ectopsocus californicus (Banks, 1903)

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Species Ectopsocus californicus (Banks, 1903)

  • Peripsocus californicus Banks, N. 1903. Some new Neuropteroid Insects. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 11: 236-243 2 figs [237].
    Type data:
     Lectotype MCZ ♀ adult, Berkeley, California.
    Paralectotype(s) MCZ ♂ adult; MCZ ♂adult.
    Subsequent designation references:
    Chapman, P.J. 1930. Corrodentia of the United States of America. I. Suborder Isotecnomera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 38: 219-290, 319-402 pls XII-XXI [380].
    Type locality references:
    Chapman, P.J. 1930. Corrodentia of the United States of America. I. Suborder Isotecnomera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 38: 219-290, 319-402 pls XII-XXI [380].
  • Ectopsocus congener Tillyard, R.J. 1923. A Monograph of the Psocoptera, or Copeognatha, of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 54: 170-196 20 figs pl. 18 [192].
    Type data:
     Holotype NZAC adult (sex not mentioned), Nelson, New Zealand.
    Paratype(s) NZAC 3♀ ♂ adults.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Smithers, C.N. 1969. The Psocoptera of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 8(4): 259-344 211 figs [289]

 

Distribution

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, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria
  • New Zealand

Nearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, tall closed forest, tall open forest, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

On dead leaves without hairs, bracken, often in association with other species of the same genus, common in rainforest.

 

General References

Chapman, P.J. 1930. Corrodentia of the United States of America. I. Suborder Isotecnomera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 38: 219-290, 319-402 pls XII-XXI [377] (new combination)