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Lachesilla
Lachesilla is the main genus in the psocopteran family Lachesillidae. Frequent species in the Northern hemisphere include Lachesilla quercus and Lachesilla pedicularia. Some species are localized: Lachesilla merzi has been collected only once in Spain and Lachesilla rossica, apart from the original specimens that were found in southern Russia, is only known from the Valley of the Allondon river, near Geneva, Switzerland (and from one find in Albania in 2015).
There are 361 recognized species in Lachesilla.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Lachesilla nubilis
speciesLachesilla nubilis

Cosmopolitan Grain Psocid
speciesLachesilla pedicularia

Lachesilla rena
speciesLachesilla rena

Lachesilla quercus
speciesLachesilla quercus

Lachesilla texana
speciesLachesilla texana

Lachesilla bernardi
speciesLachesilla bernardi

Lachesilla dona
speciesLachesilla dona

Lachesilla tectorum
speciesLachesilla tectorum

Lachesilla floridana
speciesLachesilla floridana
Lachesilla pacifica
speciesLachesilla pacifica

Lachesilla anna
speciesLachesilla anna

Lachesilla corona
speciesLachesilla corona

Lachesilla major
speciesLachesilla major

Lachesilla bottimeri
speciesLachesilla bottimeri

Lachesilla nita
speciesLachesilla nita

Lachesilla andra
speciesLachesilla andra

Lachesilla kola
speciesLachesilla kola

Lachesilla michiliensis
speciesLachesilla michiliensis

Lachesilla tropica
speciesLachesilla tropica

Lachesilla tanaidana
speciesLachesilla tanaidana

Lachesilla contraforcepeta
speciesLachesilla contraforcepeta

Lachesilla rufa
speciesLachesilla rufa

Lachesilla novemimaculata
speciesLachesilla novemimaculata

Lachesilla nubiloides
speciesLachesilla nubiloides

Lachesilla forcepeta
speciesLachesilla forcepeta

Lachesilla punctata
speciesLachesilla punctata
Lachesilla caecilioides
speciesLachesilla caecilioides
Lachesilla carinatoides
speciesLachesilla carinatoides
Lachesilla cuala
speciesLachesilla cuala
Lachesilla cupressicola
speciesLachesilla cupressicola
Lachesilla curviforceps
speciesLachesilla curviforceps
Lachesilla curvipila
speciesLachesilla curvipila
Lachesilla dasylirionicola
speciesLachesilla dasylirionicola
Lachesilla denticuliforceps
speciesLachesilla denticuliforceps
Lachesilla dispariforceps
speciesLachesilla dispariforceps
Lachesilla dividiforceps
speciesLachesilla dividiforceps
Lachesilla ecuatoriana
speciesLachesilla ecuatoriana
Lachesilla estradaorum
speciesLachesilla estradaorum
Lachesilla filicifolia
speciesLachesilla filicifolia
Lachesilla fuscipalpis
speciesLachesilla fuscipalpis
Lachesilla guentheri
speciesLachesilla guentheri
Lachesilla juniperana
speciesLachesilla juniperana
Lachesilla laciniosiforceps
speciesLachesilla laciniosiforceps
Lachesilla mathieui
speciesLachesilla mathieui
Lachesilla newi
speciesLachesilla newi
Lachesilla nuptialis
speciesLachesilla nuptialis
Lachesilla penta
speciesLachesilla penta
Lachesilla picticeps
speciesLachesilla picticeps
Lachesilla picticepsoides
speciesLachesilla picticepsoides
Lachesilla querpina
speciesLachesilla querpina
Lachesilla rectiforceps
speciesLachesilla rectiforceps
Lachesilla riegeli
speciesLachesilla riegeli
Lachesilla silvatica
speciesLachesilla silvatica
Lachesilla sommermanae
speciesLachesilla sommermanae
Lachesilla tapanatepeca
speciesLachesilla tapanatepeca
Lachesilla taxodicola
speciesLachesilla taxodicola
Lachesilla tehuautlensis
speciesLachesilla tehuautlensis
Lachesilla texcocana
speciesLachesilla texcocana
Lachesilla tuita
speciesLachesilla tuita
Lachesilla turneri
speciesLachesilla turneri
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 252638.