Echmepteryx hamiltoni

Echmepteryx hamiltoni (length about 3.9 mm)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Atropetae

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Paraneoptera Ordo: Psocodea Subordo: Trogiomorpha Infraordo: Atropetae

Familia: Lepidopsocidae
Subfamilia: Lepidopsocinae
Genus: Echmepteryx
Subgenus: Oxypsocus
Species: Echmepteryx hamiltoni

Name

Echmepteryx hamiltoni (Tillyard, 1923: 179)

• Original genus: Oxypsocus Tillyard, 1923
• Original status: valid species
• Primary type: holotype
  • Fixation: designated
  • Description: [adult]
  • Repository: NZAC, as 'Cawthron Institute collection'
• Type locality: 'Masterton, N.Z.' [NEW ZEALAND WA]

References

• Smithers, C.N. 1969: The Psocoptera of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 8(4): 259-344. BUGZ. Reference page.  [See p. 265, and figs. 8-9; redescription (male, female)]
• Tillyard, R.J. 1923. A monograph of the Psocoptera, or Copeognatha, of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 54: 170-196, plate 18. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 179, and plate 18, fig. 1, text figs. 5-6; original description]

Selected links

• Psocodea Species File

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