Species Liposcelis divinatorium Müller, 1776

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• Liposcelis divinatorium Müller, O.F. 1776. Zoologicae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina et synonyma imprimis popularium. Copenhagen : Havniae Vol. 32 pp. 1-282. [pls published in 1777] [184].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

Ecological Descriptors

Stored products.

General References

Broadhead, E. 1950. A revision of the genus Liposcelis Motschulsky with notes on the position of this genus in the order Corrodentia and on the variability of ten Liposcelis species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 101(10): 335-388 3 pls 28 figs [382] (placed the name Liposcelis divinatorium under the heading 'Incertae Sedis')

Enderlein, G. 1906. Die australischen Copeognathen. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 23: 401-412 pl. 23 [412] (name used for Australian material)

Evans, J.W. 1943. Insects pests and their control. Hobart 178 pp. 104 figs (Psocoptera: pp. 16, 152, 153). [152] (name used for Australian material)

Hickman, V.V. 1934. A contribution to the study of Tasmanian Copeognatha. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1933: 77-89 6 figs [83] (name used for Australian material)

Lienhard, C. 1990. Revision of the Western Palaearctic species of Liposcelis Motschulsky (Psocoptera: Liposcelididae). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 117: 117-174 figs 1-21 [163] (points out that it is impossible to recognise this species from the original description and that the types are untraceable. There are very many references to this name in the literature and they undoubtedly refer to an array of species. Much of the literature on material collected in general surveys and on pests, especially that dealing with domestic species and associated with stored products, refer to almost any occurrence of Liposcelis species as Liposcelis divinatorius, Liposcelis divinatoria or Liposcelis divinatorium. In many such cases the name seems to have simply been applied to any species having the general appearance of the traditional 'booklouse'. The name no longer appears in taxonomic papers and it seems very unlikely that it could ever be reliably applied to any particular species)

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