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Liposcelis decolor Pearman 1925
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Description
Liposcelis decolor (Pearman, 1925)
Material examined. Malta, Buskett, 17. v.1974, 4 ♀, in soil sample, VM.
Notes. This species was previously reported from Malta by Lienhard (1990). It is a cosmopolitan species mostly associated with ground litter and tussocks of dead grasses, also found in birds’ nests, mammals’ nests, bat guano, and under bark. It is also often found in warehouses and dwellings, herbaria, insect collections and similar commodities (Lienhard 1990, 1998).
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Published as part of Lienhard, Charles & Mifsud, David, 2015, Psocids from Malta (Insecta: Psocodea: ' Psocoptera'), with new synonymy for Peripsocus stagnivagus based on the discovery of its first Palaearctic male, pp. 251-260 in Zootaxa 3936 (2) on page 253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/237273
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pearman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Psocodea
- Family
- Liposcelididae
- Genus
- Liposcelis
- Species
- decolor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Liposcelis decolor Pearman, 1925 sec. Lienhard & Mifsud, 2015
References
- Lienhard, C. (1990) Revision of the Western Palaearctic species of Liposcelis Motschulsky (Psocoptera: Liposcelididae). Zoologische Jahrbucher (Abteilung Systematik), 117, 117 - 174.
- Lienhard, C. (1998) Psocopteres euro-mediterraneens. Faune de France, 83, xx + 517 pp.