Nothocaecilius, Schmidt & New, 2008

Schmidt, Evan R. & New, Timothy R., 2008, The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 71-152 : 102

Nothocaecilius 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; brachypterous; setae of fore wing long, standing relatively upright, in at least two ranks on veins in basal half of wing; external valve represented by two or three setae; anterior margin of phallosome transverse; male epiproct with a small papillar field.

Type species: Nothocaecilius thomasi sp. nov. Remarks. The combination of the above characters, particularly those associated with the brachypterous wings, are unique.

Etymology. The generic name is a combination of the Greek nothos, spurious, and Caecilius , a genus of Caeciliusidae . It alludes to the Nothofagus rainforest habitat of the type species.