Species Peripsocus maoricus (Tillyard, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Peripsocopsis maoricus Tillyard, R.J. 1923. A Monograph of the Psocoptera, or Copeognatha, of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 54: 170-196 20 figs pl. 18 [194].

  Type data:

   Holotype NZAC ♀ adult, York Bay, Wellington Harbour, New Zealand.
  Paratype(s) NZAC (2 specimens) adults.
• Peripsocus macropterus Edwards, B.A.B. 1950. A study of the Tasmanian Psocoptera with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1949: 93-134 117 figs [124].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K67686 ♀ adult, New Town Creek, TAS.
  Paratype(s) AM K67687 ♂ adult.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• New, T.R. 1973. New species and records of Peripsocus Hagen (Psocoptera, Peripsocidae) from Southeast Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 340-346 16 figs [345]

 

Generic Combinations

• Peripsocus maoricus (Tillyard, 1923). —
  Roesler, R. 1944. Die Gattungen der Copeognathen. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 105: 117-166 [154]
  New, T.R. 1973. New species and records of Peripsocus Hagen (Psocoptera, Peripsocidae) from Southeast Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 340-346 16 figs [345]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
• New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, heathland, low open forest, scrub.

Extra Ecological Information

On bark, Melaleuca [Myrtaceae], Banksia [Proteaceae], Maclura pomifera [Moraceae].

 

General References

Roesler, R. 1944. Die Gattungen der Copeognathen. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 105: 117-166 [154] (new combination)

Schmidt, E.R. & New, T.R. 2008. The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65: 71–152 [118]

Smithers, C.N. 1998. New species and new records of Psocoptera (Insecta) from South Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 120: 69-79 [72] (new record)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Oct-2014	PSOCOMORPHA	27-Oct-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco
		12-Feb-2010	(import)