Genus Blaste Kolbe, 1883

Museums

Regional Maps

• Blaste Kolbe, H.J. 1883. Neue Psociden des Königl. zoologischen Museums zu Berlin. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 44: 65-87 [79].

  Type species:

   Psocus quietus Hagen, 1861 by monotypy (=Psocus juvenilis Kolbe, 1883).

  Secondary source:

   Chapman, P.J. 1930. Corrodentia of the United States of America. I. Suborder Isotecnomera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 38: 219-290, 319-402 pls XII-XXI [271] (as Psocus juvenilis Kolbe, 1883).
• Euclismia Enderlein, G. 1925. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Copeognathen. IX. Konowia 4: 97-108 1 fig. [99].

  Type species:

   Psocus quadrimaculatus Latreille, 1794 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Roesler, R. 1943. Über einige Copeognathengenera. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 104: 1-14 13 figs [2]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

North America, Central America, South America, Europe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Nigeria
• Saint Helena
• South Africa
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Zaire

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal
• New Zealand

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

• Cuba
• Jamaica

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand

Palaearctic Region

• Algeria
• Egypt
• Morocco
• Saudi Arabia

Distribution References

General References

Schmidt, E.R. & New, T.R. 2008. The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65: 71–152 [134] (key to species recorded for Tasmania)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Oct-2014	PSOCOMORPHA	28-Oct-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco
		12-Feb-2010	(import)