Novopsocus
Genus of booklice
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Novopsocus is a genus in the Pseudocaeciliidae family, with, until 2008, one described species endemic to New Guinea (described by Thornton.[1] It was later found that the specimens of two different species (one of which undescribed) had been mixed, and an individual of a third species was found.[2] The genus is characterised by a flat head with a sharp vertex, narrow, strap-like wings, and antennae with a broad, flattened first flagellar segment in the males of two species.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Psocodea |
| Family: | Pseudocaeciliidae |
| Subfamily: | Zelandopsocinae |
| Genus: | Novopsocus Thornton, 1984 |
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