''Pseudopsocus rostocki'' is a species of
Psocoptera from
Elipsocidae
Elipsocidae is a family of Psocodea (formerly Psocoptera) belonging to the infraorder Homilopsocidea. Members of the family have a free areola postica. Many species are apterous (without wings). The family includes about 130 species in more than ...
family that can be found in
England and
Ireland. It can also be found in
Benelux,
France,
Germany,
Poland,
Spain, and
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
. The species are black and white coloured, and are striped.
[Description and habitat]
/ref> It feeds on lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.[conifers
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida. All extan ...]
.
Habitat
The species feeds on veteran open-grown oaks.[
]
References
Elipsocidae
Insects described in 1882
Taxa named by Hermann Julius Kolbe
Psocoptera of Europe
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