Aphyopsocus prolixus Smithers

Schmidt, Evan R. & New, Timothy R., 2008, The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 71-152 : 85

Aphyopsocus prolixus Smithers

Aphyopsocus prolixus Smithers, 1982: 14 .

Material examined. Site 35A, 1, 20 Feb 87; site 103, 1, 21 Feb 88; site 121A, 1, 10 Nov 86; site 159B, 1, 23 Feb 88; site 159C, 9, 1

, 19 Apr 87; 6, 5, 23 Feb 88; site 177, 1 nymph, 9 Feb 87; site 180A, 6, 1, 1 nymph, 13 Nov 86; 4, 2, 8 Dec 86; 3, 20 Jan 87; 1, 18 Mar 87; 1 nymph, 31 July 87; 1, 26 Feb 88; site 248A, 1, 24 Aug 86; 4, 23 Sep 86; 1, 25 Oct 86; 1, 24 Jan 87; 2, 1, 1 Mar 87; 1, 1, 23 May 87; 1, 28 June 87; 3, 30 July 87; site 248B, 1, 14 June 86; site 280A, 1, 26 Jan 87.

Distribution. Tasmania and New South Wales.

Remarks. This species, collected throughout the year, is most common on broad-leafed vegetation such as Banksia serrata and in wet forest Olearia argophylla . Interestingly, for a limited time many individuals were found on Monotocca sp., a very different plant which at the locality (site 159C) was an understorey species of the salt- and drought-tolerant species Casuarina stricta . In addition to the two states listed above ERS has collected this species from eastern Victoria and Queensland.