Ectopsocus McLachlan, 1899

Schmidt, Evan R. & New, Timothy R., 2008, The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 71-152 : 104-106

Ectopsocus McLachlan

Ectopsocus McLachlan, 1899: 277 . Type species: Ectopsocus briggsi McLachlan.

Key to Tasmanian species of Ectopsocus *

1. Ground colour of head pale with obvious brown markings, fore wing with spots at end of veins 2

– Colour of head brown, fore wing lacking spots at end of veins 7

2. Posterior margin of paraproct with single spine californicus (Banks)

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– Posterior margin of paraproct with pair of spines 3

Paraproct spines equal in size 4

Paraproct spines not equal in size 5

4. Single comb on ninth tergite of male, lobes of female subgenital plate long and slender briggsi McLachlan

– Pair of combs on ninth tergite of male, lobes of female subgenital plate short and wide risdonensis sp. nov.

5. Ninth sternite of male lacking field of ornamentation, gonapophyses lacking spermathecal sac rileyae Schmidt and Thornton

– Ninth sternite of male with field of ornamentation, gonapophyses with spermathecal sac 6

6. Endophallus with series of long spines, ventral valve of gonapophyses short and broad hickmani sp. nov.

– Endophallus lacking spines, ventral valve of gonapophyses long and slender petersi Smithers

7. Rudimentary fore wing with convex dome in apical half –

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coyae sp. nov.

Rudimentary fore wing lacking convex dome in apical half 8

Phallosome with complex of asymmetrical sclerites, gonapophyses lacking ventral valve vachoni Badonnel

Phallosome without complex of asymmetrical sclerites, gonapophyses complete 9

Male antenna with spines on two basal flagellar segments, endophallus with long sinuous sclerite, subgenital plate strongly spiculate between apical lobes graminus sp. nov.

Male antenna lacking spines on basal flagellar segments, endophallus lacking long sinuous sclerite, subgenital plate not spiculate between apical lobes 10 10. Posterior margin of paraproct with single spine, macropterous forms with hind wing veins r and m joined by cross-vein edwardsi New

– Posterior margin of paraproct with pair of spines, macropterous forms with hind wing veins r and m fused 11

11. Paraproct spines equal in size, tubercles present on male eighth tergite, inner parameres of phallosome fused apically, external valve of gonapophyses strongly spiculate,

posterior margin of median area between apical lobes of subgenital plate adjacent to row of preapical setae axillaris (Smithers)

– Paraproct spines unequal in size, tubercles absent on male eighth tergite, inner parameres of phallosome not fused apically, external valve of gonapophyses not spiculate, posterior margin of median area between apical lobes of subgenital plate and row of preapical setae separate 12

12. Endophallus lacking median sclerite, subgenital plate lobes angular with seven apical setae, lateral margins strongly sclerotised brunneus (Edwards)

– Endophallus with median sclerite, subgenital plate lobes rounded and shallow with four apical setae, lateral margins not sclerotised sprenti sp. nov.

* Ectopsocus nerens (Hickman) is not included in this key as genitalic information is not available.