Meaning of psocopteran | Babel Free

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Any insect of the order Psocoptera.

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“Thrips probably evolved from primitive Psocopterans approximately 250 million years ago.[…]The Liposcelidae include the common "book lice" (Liposcelis) psocopterans, which are wingless and also found in mammal nests.”

“The psocopterans most readers are likely to encounter seem more social parasites than social.”

“Psocoptera and Phthiraptera are paraphyletic with respect to each other (Yoshizawa & Johnson 2006; Kjer et al. 2006) but the suborders Psocomorpha and Trogiomorpha, which contain most of the common species of psocopterans, do appear to be monophyletic (Yoshizawa 2002).”

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