psocopteran

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English

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A psocopteran, Psococerastis gibbosa

Etymology

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Psocoptera +‎ -an

Noun

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psocopteran (plural psocopterans)

  1. Any insect of the order Psocoptera.
    • 2002, Niles Eldredge, Life on Earth, page 152:
      Thrips probably evolved from primitive Psocopterans approximately 250 million years ago. [] The Liposcelidae include the common "book lice" (Liposcelis) psocopterans, which are wingless and also found in mammal nests.
    • 2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, page 193:
      The psocopterans most readers are likely to encounter seem more social parasites than social.
    • 2009, Ian Christopher Stocks, Comparative Morphological and Functional Analysis of Wing Coupling and ..., page 13:
      Psocoptera and Phthiraptera are paraphyletic with respect to each other (Yoshizawa & Johnson 2006; Kjer et al. 2006) but the suborders Psocomorpha and Trogiomorpha, which contain most of the common species of psocopterans, do appear to be monophyletic (Yoshizawa 2002).

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