Suborder Trogiomorpha Suborder Troctomorpha Suborder Psocomorpha
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Size:2.5 mm. Range: This is the only species of the genus in the Western Hemisphere. It has been colleted around Brownsville, TX and penninsular Florida. Outside the U.S. it occurs in Cuba, Mexico,
Guatemala and Belize. Habitat: persistant dead leaves of various
plants, also on trunks and branches of trees.
Size: ~ 3 mm. Range outside Texas: Eastern U.S. west to Arkansas Habitat: Bark
and leaves of
deciduous trees and on exposed outcrops. Males are rare
except at a few sites in the U.S.
Size: ~1.6 mm. Range outside Texas: Eastern
U.S.; less common in the southwest. Habitat:
Leaf litter. There is a
macropterous form of this species and I would be
delighted to encounter it.
Size:1.5 mm. Cosmopolitan. Habitat: Deciduous and evergreen trees and stone
outcrops. Identified by the anchor shaped mark on the frons. Most
populations are parthenogenetic.
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Size: ~ 1.2 mm. Range: Cosmopolitan. Habitat: Leaf litter,
granaries, bird and mammal nests. Winglets
with a distinctive reticulate pattern. The wings are easily dislodged.
This obligate parthenogen can become a pest in stored food products.
Size: ~ 1.7 mm. Range: Not common; found primarily in the
northeast; Habitat: Can occur in grain mills, bird nests, even
herbaria.
I have only found it on palms (Sabal
minor) at Aquarena Springs. Males and females look very much
alike.
male 1.03 mm, female 1.18 mm Range:
throughout penninsular Florida, Atlantic Coast to Brunswick GA, around Gulf Coast to Texas, southern and southeastern Mexico. Habitat: dead leaves of palm,yucca and Typha. In this photo the male is on the left. I call this one the "Hobbit psocid".
Size: 1.4 mm. Range: Atlantic Coastal Plain, Gulf Coast from Florida to south Texas, along Mississippi embankment to southern Illinois.
Habitat: dead persistent leaves, conifer foilage and leaf litter. Note the large terminal segment of the maxillary palps.
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Size: ~ 2 mm. Range outside Texas: records from central Europe, southern
England, Zimbabwe. It is only known from domestic situations such as basements. This rather odd looking psocid reminds me of Gollum from Lord of the Rings.
Size: 1.2 - 1.5 mm. Range outside Texas: Records from Arizona and
California. Habitat: Found in leaf litter, dead yucca leaves and dead
palm leaves. All are brachypterous. Named for Indian tribe from type
locality.
Size: ~2 mm Range: cosmopolitan. Females micropterous or
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Size:3.5 mm Range outide Texas: southern Arizona south to Central
America. - Habitat: Shaded limestone outcrops. This
species is part of a complex of closely related species
found from southern Texas. Known from female only.
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Size: ~ 1.0 mm Range: Texas- Harris Co.; Gulf Coast Florida to
Texas and in
Bullock Co. Ga. Habitat: under bark of dead trees. Known from males,
macropterors and apterous females.
Size: ~ 1.1 mm Range: west Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, northeast toOttowa, Ontario. Habitat: Conifer and oak foilage, and ground litter beneath these trees, bird nests and domestic situations.
Size: 1.1 mm Range: Hays Co.; Southern and western Texas, southern New
Mexico,
southern Oklahoma; San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Habitat: Foliage of
junipers, pine, yuccas, mesquite and leaf litter.
Known from females only.
Size: ~ 1.1 mm. Range: Texas-Hays Co.; Midwest and southeastern U.S. to central Texas; fairly cosmopolitan. Habitat: Primarily domestic but also taken in leaf litter. Field collected
specimens (as in leaf litter) mostly tropical and subtropical. Known from male and female.
Size: ~ 1.2 mm Range: Texas Hays Co, and in Arizona Habitat: grasses and dead vines. Known from female only. Collected in Brazil in the nest of an ant, Camponotus rufipes.
Dorsal view on the left and ventral on the right. Note "Head medium brown with a slight reddish tinge: palpi colorless".
Size: 1.1 mm. Range: central and south Texas and in central-penninsular
Florida. Habitat: woody vegetation and under bark. I find it
especially on lichen covered banches of Mesquite. Known from both
sexes but I have yet to photograph a male.
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Size: 1.2 mm. Range: Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas and in the
Mexican states of San Luis Potosi and Tabasco. Known from female only.
Habitat: Great variety of trees and shrubs. I have found in in leaf
litter and dead palm fronds.
Size: ~ 1.1 mm. Range: Texas- Hays Co.
Relatively cosmopolitan; recorded
from several U. S. states including Texas. Habitat: Domestic; also
found in bird nests, under bark and
sweeping grass. This species is known from both sexes.
Size: ~ 1 mm. Range: Texas- Blanco Co.;
Known from the Davis Mts. of Texas
and Catalina Mts. of Arizona. The specimen pictured was collected at
Flat Creek (Blanco Co.). Habitat: Dead persistent leaves of yucca; leaf
litter. Known from both sexes.
Size: ~ 1.0 mm Range: Texas- Hays Co.; Cosmopolitan
Habitat: under bark, bird nests, stored grain, old books,
chicken litter. Known only from females. If there is a classic
booklouse, this is it.
Size: ~ macropterous female, 1.5 mm., apteous female 1.0 mm.
Range: southeastern U. S. north to Illinois; also Mexico, Central
America, West Indies, West and Central Africa, Japan and South Pacific Islands . Habitat: Occurs on dead leaves of palms, bamboos and grasses.
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Macropterous females brown; apterous females creamy white; males (apterous) creamy white but with a reddish brown stripe along anterior margin of abdominal terga 2-7. This genus is
characterized by a foliate shaped hind tarsal claw on each foot.
Size: 1.1 mm. Range: First recorded from the Botanical Gardens of
Calcutta, India by Ian W. B. Thornton and S. K. Wong, "Some
Psocoptera from West Bengal, India", Transactions of the Royal
Entomological Society of London, 118(1):1-21, 1966. Habitat: leaf
litter, dead palm frinds, dead persistent leaves.
Size: male ~ 1 mm, female ~ 1.5 mm. Range: Central Texas to
lower Rio Grande Valley, Mexico and South America. Habitat: dead
palm and grass leaves Known from males, macropterous and apterous females.
To the right is the macropterous
female (length 1.7 mm). In my
experience, this form is rarer than the apterous one. In this family,
the wings are held flat over the abdomen, not roof-like as in the
Psocomorpha. Dr.
Mockford says that this individual from Gonzales Co. shows much more
patterning on the head than specimens in far south Texas.
Size: male ~ 1.1 mm, female ~ 1.3 mm Range: unknown Habitat: Leaf litter This un-described species lacks the backwards "U" shaped marks along the lateral edge of the abdomen. This species often occurs with Tapinella maculata.
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The images on this row depict the macropterous form of Tapinella sp. Type 2. These individuals possess ocelli while the apterous morphs do not.
Size:0.7 mm Range: single site Habitat: leaf litter This species has not been found in Texas but it is so remarkable that I had to include it. This remarkable species was discovered by Tim King. "It is the first living species of its genus, known otherwise only from Sphaeropsocus kuenowii Hagen, a fossil species from the Baltic amber (Eocene)." Mockford, E.L., A New species of Sphaeropsocus Hagen from south eastern U. S.: the first living species of its genus, Life: the Excitement of Biology 1(2): 100-111.
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Size: ~ 1.7 mm Range: throughout eastern
U.S., southern
Rocky Mts., northwest Washington state. Mexico: San Cristobal and
Chiapas. Habitat: woodland ground litter Males (very rare)
macropterous, femaes micropterous.
Size: ~ 3.5 mm
Range: outside Texas-
Gulf Coast from south Florida to the Rio Grande Valley. Wide range in
the tropics including Mexico, Guatemala & Venezuela. Habitat:
Living or dead palm foilage. With the exception of a single male taken in Guyana, this species consists only of females.
Size:~ 3 Range: Texas, Arkansas east to Mississippi, North Carolina and north the New York; ranges from Mexico to Guatemala. Habitat: Prefers foilage of Juniperus and Cupressus.
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Size: 3.6 mm, Range outside Texas: eastern U. S., northern Pacific Coast, also Europe, Canary Islands, Bermuda, and Mexico. Habitat: Foilage of broadleaf trees. Males are scarce throughout most of the range. Populations which have males may represent a sibling species (Mockford, 1993).
Size: ~ 4 mm, Range outside Texas: Florida, Georgia, Cuba, Habitat: found on various trees including oaks, palms and
on Sapnish moss.
Size: ~ 3 mm Range: Throughout Florida and southeast Alabama. Range probably along entire Gulf Coast. Habitat: persistent dead leaves of native grasses.
Size: ~ 3 mm Range outside Texas: eastern U. S. records in Minnesota, Missouri and Nebraska. Habitat: dead leaves of cattail, corn and palmetto. This species was described by Kathryn M. Sommerman
in "Description and bionomics of Caecilius manteri", Proc. Ent. Soc. of Washington, 45(2): 9-39, 1943 with marvelous illustrations. Males are rare in this species.
Size: male 3.0 mm, female 3.2 mm Range outside Texas: throughout Florida, southeast Alabama and on Bimini Island and the Bahamas. Habitat: dead leaves of Sabal and Coccothrinax.
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Size: male 2.6 mm, female 2.7 mm. Range: eastern US, west to Wisconsin and Missouri, also SE Canada. Recent records extend range westward. Habitat: leaf litter. Females dimorphic- macropterous and micropterous.
This is an image of the micropterous female by Jean Brodeur of Canada. This female morph looks very similar to the micropterous female of Valenzuela posticus. Micropterous females of V. nadleri, however, have dark antennae all the way to the tip. Both occur in leaf litte
Size:male 3-4 mm, micropterous female 2 mm. Range outside Texas- records from Florida, Illinois, Michigan and New York. Females either fully winged or microptreous. The micropterous V. nadleri which looks very similar has uniformly dark antennae while those of V. posticus are pale terminally.
Size: ~ 2.5 mm Range: Outside Texas - Atlantic and Gulf Coast Habitat: foliage of broadleaf evergreen trees like American holly and live oak.
Size: ~3.8 mm
Range: Texas Gulf Coast. This
non-native species was apparently introduced along both coasts sometime in the early 19th century. Habitat: Foilage of braodleaf deciduous and evergreen trees.
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Size: ~ 3.5 mm
Range outside Texas: eastern U. S. west to Missouri; eastern
Canada and Pacific coast from British Columbia south to northern
Califorina. There are closely related species in Mexico. Habitat:
Variety of broad-leaf trees including Magnolia.
Size: 5.6 mm Range: Throughout most of U.S. and Canada, but absent from northern midwestern states. Habitat: Great variety of broad-leaf and coniferous trees and occasionally ground litter. Not known outside North America.
Size: ~ 2.2 mm Range: Outside Texas- Records from
southern California, Arizona and New Mexico Habitat: specimens
shown found on dead Chinaberry branches near the Concho River.
Size: ~ 2.6 Range: Outside Texas- throughout eastern
U.S. west to New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. Habitat: dead grasses and dead limbs with persistent leaves.
Size: ~ 2.2 Range: Outside Texas - a second population
in the Smokey Mts. Mexico: Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Cerrode la Silla. Habitat: dead leaves on clumps of native grasses.
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Size: ~ 1.5 mm Range: Outside Texas Mexico: Durango
State Habitat: under loose bark Known only from female. "This species is neotenic as indicated by the brachyptery, small oceli and almost complete absence of sensory fields on the paraprocts" Garcia Aldrete, A., "Lachesillidae from the Biosphere Reserve 'La Michilia", Durango and Surrounding Areas, Folia Entomologica Mexicana 81: 165-183, 1991.
photograph by Graham Montgomery
Size:3.2 mm Range: Outside Texas occurs throughout eastern U.S. and southeastern Canada, south to Marian Co. Florida and west to Texas Co. Missouri. Habitat: persistent dead leaves trees and shrubs.
Size: ~ 2.0 Range: Outside Texas- throughout eastern U.S., and Rocky Mountain region, New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho. Habitat: conifers such as junipers and pine. Male claspers curve outward.
Size: 2.0 mm Range: Outside Texas coastal distribution in Florida and Alabama;Habitat: Found on dead palm and palmetto fronds. Note the crossvein between the pterostigma and vein Rs.
Size: ~ 2.0 mm Range: Outside of Texas- throughout eastern U.S. west to Oklahoma and Kansas and the San Antonio area of Texas. Habitat:
conifers including Juniperus ashei.
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Size: ~ 2.5 mm Range: Lower Rio Grande Valley; Mexico: Tabasco State Habitat: dead foliage of palms and carrizo grass.
Size: ~ 2.5 Range: Outside Texas- Gulf states from Texas to Florida; eastern Mexico south to Chiapas State. Habitat: prsistant dead leaves of deciduous trees and palms.
Size: 2.5 mm. Range: This species has been recorded from most of the U.S., nearly cosmopolitan elsewhere. Habitat: Found on grasses, dead
persistent leaves, dried grain and occcasionally conifers. It is
easily transported in human commerce and can become a pest of stored
grain.
Size:1.8; Range: Outside Texas - southern California and Maricopa Co. Arizona
and throughout much of Mexico. Habitat: dead grasses and low vegetation.
Size: 2.5 mm Range: outside Texas- Gulf coast Florida to Texas Mexico:
Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon Habitat: dead leaves of palm
and tall grasses Known from female only.
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Size:~ 1.7 mm Range: Outside Texas- Mexico: Oaxaca, Tamaulipas,
Yucatan; Habitat: persistent dried leaves of native grasses. This species belongs to the Rena complex in which the male epiproct is extremely long and narrow.
Size: 2.2 mm Range - Outside Texas: Florida, throughout most of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica. Habitat: hanging dead leaves
of trees and shrubs.
Size: 2.5 mm. Range: Gulf Coast Georgia to Texas, also in Mexico,
Beliize, Guatemala, and Panama. Habitat: Found on cabbage palm, various oaks, Eleagnus and other shrubs. Note the characteristic diffuse spot in each cell from R3, R5, M1, M2, M3.
Size: ~ 2.0 mm Range: Outside Texas- Gulf states from Texas to
Florida. Mexico: Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Chiapas. Habitat: native
grass.The male of this species was only recently been described
(Garcia Aldrete & Mockford "Reappraisal of Species Group Patzunensis" Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 113(4): 417-425, 2011.
Size: ~ 1.7 mm Range: Outside Texas- Gulf States from Texas to Florida and north to New York, west to Illinois Habitat: leaf litter; hanging dead leaves.
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Size: ~ 2.4 Range: Outside Texas: U. S. Atlantic and Pacific Coast, Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala Habitat: living and dead foliage of broadleaf and coniferous trees.
Size:2.4 mm Range outsie Texas: throughout eastern U.S. south to Florida; central Mexico to Chile, southern Europe, Africa and Japan. Habitat: persistent dead leaves. Known only from female.
Size: males ~ 1.0 mm, females ~ 1.7 mm Range: Outside Texas-US Gulf States, California; Mexico, South America, and Europe Habitat: leaf
litter, dried grass and lower foliage of trees.
In this species, the males are micropterous and the females are either macropterous or micropterous. The tiny male has a dark clunial comb (visible in a dissecting microscope) which identifies it as mature. I once observed a male approaching a female and vibrating his body rhythmically as a prelude to courtship. This species is likely very common throughout Texas.
Size: ~ 3.2 mm Range: Outside Texas, Nova Scotia south to Florida and west to central Texas Habitat: bark and branches of broad-leaf and coniferous trees.
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The barchypterous form of this species is shown to the right. I do not find this form in central Texas but did record them from Austin Co.
Size: ~ 2.7 Range: Outside Texas - eastern U.S., west to Minnesota and Arkansas, Pacific Coast from San Francisco Bay to British Columbia. Habitat: branches of broadleaf and coniferous trees and
shaded stone outcrops. Male virtually absent except in Washington state and Vancouver, British Columbia.
Size: ~ 2.0 mm Range: Outside Texas- southern Illinois
southwestward to Missoiri, Arkansas and central Texas Habitat:
foliage of Juniperus virginiana and Juniperus ashei.
Size: male: ~ 2.2 mm, female ~ 1.5 mm Range: Habitat: Lichen
covered branches of Quercus
virginiana and Texas persimmon (Diospyros texana). This is an un-described species in which the female is micropterous.
Size: ~ 2.8 mm Range: outside Texas- this introduced species is found
in states on the Gulf and Atlantic coast of the U.S. and in the Atlantic and Mediteranean coast of Europe and North Africa Habitat: branches of braod leaf trees like citrus, bay, Ligustrum and Ilex.
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Archipsocus specimens are found along the Gulf coast from Florida to Texas and in Mexico. They can occur in Texas as far inland as Travis Co. I have not yet identified this species. These specimens were found at Palmetto State Park. There are three described species which
might occur on the Texas coast: Archipsocus floridanus, A. gurneyi A. nomas. The webbing from these psocids often covers entire tree trunks and causes a media sensation.
Size: 2.8 mm Range: Outside Texas, occurs throughout Florida, on the Alabama coast, pan-tropical; is even recorded on the Galapagos Islands; Habitat: living leaves of citrus, evergreen oaks, palms
and other trees. Known from female only.
Size: ~ 3 mm Range: east Texas, occurs throughout much of the eastern U. S.and north to Ontario, the soviet state of Georgia and the Azores. Habitat: twigs and lichen covered branches of a variety of trees and shrubs. Known only from female.
Size: 2.2 mm This un-described species is found at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. Habitat: small dead branches of live oak in a heavily wooded area.
Size: ~ 3 mm. Range outside Texas: Non native. Found South Carolina to Florida along coastal plain to Texas; Oregon as an introduction from Japan. Native to Southeast Asia and many Pacific Islands. Habitat: Forest leaf litter.
Size: ~ 4.7 mm Range: outside Texas- New York south to Florida and west to Wisconsin and south Texas Habitat: branches of broad-leaf and evergreen trees.
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Size: ~ 3.5 mm Range outside Texas- south to Mexico and Honduras Habitat: branches of small trees and shrubs in arid woodlands.
Size: ~ 5 mm. Range outside Texas: Yellowstone Natonal Park south to
Chiricahua Mountainsof Arizona. Habitat: Collected on dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobuim vaginatum and conifers.
Size: 3.5 mm. Range: Gulf Coast from Alabama to Brownsville, Texas then north to Refurio. Habitat: branches of oaks and dead vines. Known only from the male. I found females at Palm Harbor, TX. No published description yet of female.
Size: ~ 3.8 mm Range outside Texas- south to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala Habitat: broad-leaf trees, shrubs and pine.
Size: ~ 4.5 mm Range outside Texas- Montreal to Florida and west to South Dakota and Texas; outlier populations in Idaho and British Columbia Habitat: branches of broad-leaf and coniferous trees.
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Size: ~ 3.7 Range outside Texas- Montreal south to Florida - west to Minnesota to Texas Habitat: branches of broad-leaf and coniferus trees.
Size: ~ 3.3 mm Range outside Texas-Illinois south to Florida Habitat: branches of broad-leaf trees.
Size: male ~ 6 mm female 8mm Range outside Texas - Maine south to southern Florida; south to Mexico. Habitat: Trunks and brances of broad leaf trees and conifers. Pterostigma of males is dark while those of females are white.
Size: ~ 6 mm. Range outside Texas: Southestern U.S. continuing through Arkansas to Arizona. Also in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Columbia. Habitat: Tree trunks and branches and rock outcrops. 
Size: 6-7 mm Range outside Texas: Nova Scotia and coastal Maine to Florida, west to Minnesota. Habitat: Branches of broad-leaf trees and shrubs. Also occurs in Mexico.Top↑
Size: male ~5.4 mm, female ~5.6 mm Range: Habitat:
Wide variety of braodleaf and coniferous trees; usually on dead branches encrusted with lichen.
Size: 5.3 Range outside Texas: Throughout northeastern U.S. and southeast Canada. Occurs spottily in western states. Habitat: Juniperous ashei This species is characterized by the extensive pigment in cells Cu2 and IA in the forewing.
Size: ~ 5.4 mm Range: Maine to Minnesota, south to Florida and southwest to Arkansas with an outlier population in northern California. Habitat: Broadleaf trees, Mesquite, Hackberry, live oak.
Size: ~ 3.9 mm Range Outside Texas -eastern U.S. from northern Minnesota south to west Florida, west of the Mississippi it occurs spotily to Wyoming, Colorado and Texas; also occurs in Mexico Habitat: trunks and branches of braod-leaf and conifer trees.
Size: male 3.1 mm, female 3.2 mm Range: Atlantic Coast, throughout Florida continuing along Gulf Coast to Texas. Habitat: broad leaf trees and shrubs including live oak, turkey oak and pine.
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Size: ~ 3.6 Range Outside Texas - Oklahoma, New York, south to Kentucky; central Texas is probably at the western end of the range for this species Habitat: dead branches of broad-leaf trees; my specimens on live oak and ashe juniper.
Size: ~ 3.6 mm Range: Outside Texas: Gulf Coast, AL, GA, FL, VA. Habitat: broad leaf trees like Quercus virginiana. Recently described in Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 141:233-251.
Size: ~ 3.9 Range: endemic to Texas Hill Country. Habitat: lower
bare limbs of living Juniperus ashei. Recently described in Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 141:233-251.
Size: ~ 3.8 Range : Apparently a Texas endemic. Habitat: braodleaf trees like Quercus virginiana, Celtis reticulata Ulmus crassifolia and Acacia farnesiana. Recently described in Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 141:233-251.
Size: ~ 3.9 mm Range outside Texas: Throughout Florida up the Atlantic coast to Virginia; Gulf Coast. Habitat: broadleaf trees including live oak.
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Size: ~ 4.2 mm Range Outside Texas- Minnesota south to Florida west to Texas Habitat: wide variety of broad-leaf and coniferous trees.
Size: ~ 4.3 mm Range outside Texas- unknown Habitat: lichen covered branches of live oak, Mesquite, Ashe juniper and cedar elm In my humble opinion, this un-described species is a beautiful psocid! Don't you agree? This species is placed in a "holding" genus until further study.
Size: ~ 3.4 mm Range: outside Texas- Nova Scotia south to Florida, west to Minnesota Habitat: branches of braod-leaf and coniferous trees.
Size: ~ 3.2 mm Range: outside Texas- eastern U.S. west to Minnesta and central Texas Habitat: branches of broad-leaf and coniferous trees.
Size: male 4.7 mm female 5.9 mm Range: Outside Texas - Washington D.C. south to Florida, west to Indiana,Arkansas. Inhabits shaded stone outcrops and tree trunks. Dr. Mockford has expressed the need for this genus to be revised.
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Size: female 4.8 mm Range: Outside Texas- unknown. Found on
Quercus virginiana at Welder Wildlife Refuge.