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Issue: Vol. 4402 No. 1: 27 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.12
Page range: 195–200
Abstract views: 111
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of the Australian genus Clinopsocus New from coastal California (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Elipsocidae)

School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, 61790 – 4120, USA.
Psocodea ‘Psocoptera ’ Elipsocidae coastal California probable Australian origin

Abstract

Clinopsocus nigrescens n. sp. is described from a series of adult females taken on boards stored in a garage in San Leandro, Alameda County, California. Clinopsocus is known from two other species, both Australian. The new species is highly neotenic and probably parthenogenetic.

 

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