Order Psocoptera
- Psoco- rub small, ptera- wing
- Common names book lice, bark lice, psocids
- Diagnosis:
- Minute to small (8 mm or less) with large bulging head capsule and enlarged clypeus
- Chewing mouthparts
- Compound eyes varying, no ocelli on wingless forms, 3 on winged forms
- Wings with reduced venation; forewings larger than hind wings
- Cerci absent
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