Tasmanocaecilius, Schmidt & New, 2008

Schmidt, Evan R. & New, Timothy R., 2008, The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 71-152 : 104

Tasmanocaecilius gen. nov.

Diagnosis. With the characters of the tribe Epicaeciliini ( Mockford, 2000) plus the following: clypeal shelf narrow; labral stylets present; abdominal adhesive vesicles absent; radial and medial veins in fore wing simple; radial vein in hind wing simple; stigmasac in fore wing absent; anterior margin of phallosome straight, transverse.

Type species: Tasmanocaecilius truchanasi sp. nov.

Remarks. This genus differs from other genera within the tribe by the venation and ciliation of the wings. The fore wing venation is only approached by Ypsiloneura Pearman , but differs from that genus in possessing a simple medial vein, and lacking both a stigmasac and a spur-vein from the pterostigma.

Etymology. The generic name is a combination of the name Tasmania, the state, and Caecilius , a genus of Caeciliusidae .