psocopteran

English

A psocopteran, Psococerastis gibbosa

Etymology

Psocoptera +‎ -an

Noun

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

(any species of Psocoptera): bark fly, bark louse, book louse, psocid

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