Lachesilla pedicularia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ostrovsky, A. M., 2024, The barkfly (Insecta: Psocodea) fauna of the Republic of Belarus, Russian Entomological Journal 33 (1), pp. 1-8 : 6

Lachesilla pedicularia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ostrovsky, 2017, 2019.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Buda-Koshelevo district, between Uza and Rudenets villages, 52°35'30"N, 30°49'01"E, 138 m a.s.l., spontaneous landfill of household waste, among the garbage, 25.10.2020, 13♂, 33♀, 3 nymphs, collected by hand with exhauster; Gomel city, Kosmonavtov av., 52°26′57″N, 30°58′00″E, 140 m a.s.l., arrival at the light of the apartment windows of a high-rise building, 7.07.2021, 1♂, collected by hand .

DISTRIBUTION.Almost cosmopolitan species. Known from Poland and many localities all over European Russia [ Ul’yanin, 1869; Jacobson, Bianki, 1905; Vishnyakova, 1959; Svadjan et al., 1963; Danka, 1964; Martini, 1975; Golub, 1999, 2005; Georgiev, Ruchin, 2023; Georgiev et al., 2023].

NOTES. A small (c. 1.5– 2 mm) barkfly. Males and females often have long wings (macropterous) while short winged (brachypterous) specimens are occasionally found. This species mainly associated with dried twigs and branches of different shrubs and herbaceous plants, occasionally found also in leaf litter, in birds’ nests or in human dwellings.