Caecilius (insect)

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Caecilius
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Caecilius fuscopterus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Psocodea
Family: Caeciliusidae
Subfamily: Caeciliusinae
Genus: Caecilius
Curtis, 1837 [1]
Species
Synonyms
  • Coecilius (Lienhard & Smithers, 2002)
  • Mepachycera (Enderlein, 1925)
  • Valenzuela (Navas, 1924)

Caecilius is a genus of Psocoptera from the family Caeciliusidae, the lizard barklice. Species are found all around the world.

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References

  1. A guide to an arrangement of British Insects: being a catalogue of all the named species hitherto discovered in Great Britain and Ireland. J Curtis, 1837