family

Loving Barklice

Philotarsidae

Field notes

Philotarsidae is a family of Psocodea (formerly Psocoptera) belonging to the suborder Psocomorpha. The family is closely related to the family Pseudocaeciliidae, both within the infraorder Philotarsetae.

It includes the following genera:

Aaroniella Mockford, 1951

Abelopsocus Schmidt & New, 2008

Garcialdretia Mockford, 2007

Haplophallus Thornton, 1959

Nocopsocus Thornton, 1984

Philotarsopsis Tillyard, 1923

Philotarsus Kolbe, 1880

Tarsophilus Mockford & Broadhead, 1982

Children

Aaroniellinae 2 native
Philotarsinae 2 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided