psocopteran
English edit
Etymology edit
Psocoptera + -an
Noun edit
psocopteran (plural psocopterans)
- Any insect of the order Psocoptera.
- 2002, Niles Eldredge, Life on Earth, page 152:
- 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.
- 2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, page 193:
- The psocopterans most readers are likely to encounter seem more social parasites than social.
- 2009, Ian Christopher Stocks, Comparative Morphological and Functional Analysis of Wing Coupling and ..., page 13:
- 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).
Synonyms edit
- (any species of Psocoptera): bark fly, bark louse, book louse, psocid
Translations edit
insect of the order Psocoptera
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