Liposcelididae (historically often referred to as "Liposcelidae") is a
family of booklice of the
order
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Psocodea
Psocodea is a taxonomic group of insects comprising the bark lice, book lice and parasitic lice. It was formerly considered a superorder, but is now generally considered by entomologists as an order. Despite the greatly differing appearance of ...
(formerly
Psocoptera), belonging to the
suborder
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Troctomorpha.
Members of this family are small and flattened, and often wingless.
The family contains close to 200 species, arranged in nine genera which make up one smaller and one larger subfamily:
Subfamily
Embidopsocinae
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Belapha''
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Belaphopsocus''
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Belaphotroctes''
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Chaetotroctes''
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Embidopsocopsis''
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Embidopsocus
''Embidopsocus'' is a genus of booklice in the family Liposcelididae
Liposcelididae (historically often referred to as "Liposcelidae") is a family of booklice of the order Psocodea (formerly Psocoptera), belonging to the suborder Troctomorpha ...
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Troctulus''
Subfamily
Liposcelidinae
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Liposcelis
''Liposcelis'' is a genus of insects in the order Psocoptera, the booklice and barklice. There are about 126 species. Many species are associated with human habitation and several are well known as pests of stored products. The genus is distribut ...
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Troglotroctes''
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Cretoscelis''
Grimaldi and Engel 2006 Burmese amber, Myanmar,
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...
References
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Psocoptera families
Nanopsocetae
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