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Psocoptera (Copeognatha, Corrodentia: Booklice or Psocids and their allies)

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Hemipteroid insects with long, filiform antennae of 12–50 segments, sometimes secondarily annulate. Head with Y-shaped ‘epicranial suture’ usually present; post-clypeus inflated. Maxilla with 4-segmented palp and a rod-like lacinia which is partially sunk into head-capsule; labial palps much reduced, 1- or 2-segmented. Prothorax generally small; wing-venation simple, with few cross-veins, but often with characteristic anastomoses between R s and M and between M and CuIa. Tarsi 2- or 3-segmented. External genitalia inconspicuous, cerci absent.

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    O. W. Richards M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. (Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Applied Entomology) & R. G. Davies M.Sc. (Reader in Entomology)

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Richards, O.W., Davies, R.G. (1977). Psocoptera (Copeognatha, Corrodentia: Booklice or Psocids and their allies). In: Imms’ General Textbook of Entomology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0472-4_17

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