A new genus and two new species, one extant and one fossil, in the family Troctopsocidae (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Troctomorpha: Amphientometae: Electrentomoidea)

EDWARD L. MOCKFORD; ALFONSO N. GARCÍA ALDRETE

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3869.2.5

Issue: Vol. 3869 No. 2: 30 Oct. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-09-30

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.2.5

Page range: 159–164

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A new genus and two new species, one extant and one fossil, in the family
Troctopsocidae (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Troctomorpha: Amphientometae:
Electrentomoidea)

EDWARD L. MOCKFORD⁺⁻
ALFONSO N. GARCÍA ALDRETE⁺⁻

School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790-4120, USA.

Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-153, 04510, México, D. F., MÉXICO.

new genus new species Peru Dominican Republic amber fossil

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Abstract

We describe a new genus, Troctopsocoides, in the family Troctopsocidae with two new species, T. erwini n. sp. (Madre de Dios, Peru) and T. gracilis n. sp., a fossil in amber from the Dominican Republic. We include a diagnosis of the family Troctopsocidae following a recent important change in its status and a key to the known genera of the family.