Bark Louse:

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Bark Lice (Psocodea)

Family:

Bark Louse (Ectopsocidae)

Species:

Bark Louse (Ectopsocus sp)

This Photo:

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
To separate Bark Lice from Psyllids, Dr Francesco Martoni said "the shape of the head (quite "detached" from thr body), the very long antennae that look very sinuous and almost appear not segmented, as well as the wing veins, which tent to generate more than one cell per vein towards the margin of the wing."

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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