Speleketor

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Speleketor
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Psocoptera
Family: Prionoglarididae
Subfamily: Speleketorinae
Tribe: Speleketorini
Genus: Speleketor
Gurney, 1943

Speleketor is a genus of large-winged psocids in the family Prionoglarididae. There are at least three described species in Speleketor, found in the southwestern United States. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Species

These three species belong to the genus Speleketor:

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References

  1. "Speleketor". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  2. Mockford, Edward L. (1984). "Two new species of Speleketor from southern California with comments on the taxonomic position of the genus (Psocoptera: Prionoglaridae)". The Southwestern Naturalist. 29 (2): 169–179. doi:10.2307/3671023. JSTOR   3671023.
  3. Johnson, Kevin P.; Smith, Vincent S. (2019). "genus Speleketor Gurney, 1943". Psocodea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-04.