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Liposcelididae (booklouse)
Taxonomy
Liposcelidae was named by Enderlein (1911). It is extant. Its type is Liposcelis.
It was corrected as Liposcelididae by Lienhard and Smithers (2002), Nel et al. (2005), Mockford et al. (2013) and de Moya et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Psocoptera by Carpenter (1992); to Corrodentia by Park and Downing (2001); to Troctomorpha by Mockford (1969) and Nel et al. (2005); to Nanopsocetae by Badonnel (1955), Lienhard and Smithers (2002) and Mockford et al. (2013); and to Liposcelidetae by de Moya et al. (2020).
It was corrected as Liposcelididae by Lienhard and Smithers (2002), Nel et al. (2005), Mockford et al. (2013) and de Moya et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Psocoptera by Carpenter (1992); to Corrodentia by Park and Downing (2001); to Troctomorpha by Mockford (1969) and Nel et al. (2005); to Nanopsocetae by Badonnel (1955), Lienhard and Smithers (2002) and Mockford et al. (2013); and to Liposcelidetae by de Moya et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1911 | Liposcelidae Enderlein p. 350 |
| 1955 | Liposcelidae Badonnel |
| 1969 | Liposcelidae Mockford p. 1268 |
| 1992 | Liposcelidae Carpenter p. 198 |
| 2001 | Liposcelidae Park and Downing p. 179 |
| 2002 | Liposcelididae Lienhard and Smithers |
| 2005 | Liposcelididae Nel et al. |
| 2013 | Liposcelididae Mockford et al. p. 15 |
| 2020 | Liposcelididae de Moya et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Liposcelididae Enderlein 1911 [booklouse]
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Subfm. Embidopsocinae Karny 1930
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G. Belaphotroctes Roesler 1943
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Belaphotroctes ghesquierei Badonnel 1949
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Invalid names: Belaphotroctes similis Mockford 1969 [synonym]
†Belaphotroctes grimaldii Engel and Wang 2022
G. Embidopsocus Hagen 1866
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†Embidopsocus eocenicus Nel et al. 2004
†Embidopsocus pankowskiorum Engel 2016
†Embidopsocus saxonicus Günther 1989
Subfm. Liposcelidinae Enderlein 1911
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G. Liposcelis Motschulsky 1852
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†Liposcelis atavus Enderlein 1911
†Liposcelis resinatus Hagen 1865
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Holocene or 99.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Myanmar | Cretoscelis burmitica (111688) | |
| Ypresian | France (Oise) | Embidopsocus eocenicus, Liposcelis sp. (123850) | |
| Priabonian | Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) | Atropos succinica (123962) Embidopsocus pankowskiorum (124370) | |
| Priabonian | Germany (Halle) | Embidopsocus saxonicus (129227) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Mexico | Belaphotroctes sp. (21977) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Mexico (Chiapas) | Belaphotroctes similis (124469) Liposcelis sp. (124810) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Dominican Republic | Belaphopsocus dominicus (122982) | |
| Langhian | China (Fujian) | Belaphotroctes grimaldii (220273) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | Atropos resinata (124495) Liposcelididae indet. (234540) |