Belongs within: Homilopsocidea.
Contains: Peripsocidae, Philotarsidae.
The Peripsocoidea are a clade of bark or stone-surface dwelling barklice, females of which have a strongly sclerotised and square-shaped dorsal valve to the gonapophyses (Yoshizawa 2002). Members include the Mesopsocidae, bark-dwelling species characterised by long, thirteen-segmented antennae and glabrous wings (at most with a few minute marginal setae). Bryopsocus is a distinctive moss-associated genus found in wet forests of New Zealand (New & Lienhard 2007).
Characters (from Yoshizawa 2002): Small to large in size, about 2–5 mm in length. Body whitish in ground colour with blackish-brown markings or wholly blackish-brown. Head with rounded vertex; postclypeus well bulged; epicranial suture with (Mesopsocidae) or without broad internal ridge; anteclypeus sclerotized or not (Mesopsocidae). Forewing coloration, venation, and ciliation variable. Hindwing ciliation variable; Rs and M + Cu separate (most Mesopsocidae), or fused for short (Philotarsidae) or long (Peripsocidae) distance basally; Rs and M fused. Tarsi 2- (Peripsocidae) or 3-segmented; claws with preapical tooth; pulvillus narrow. Abdomen without eversible vesicles ventrally. Male genitalia: hypandrium usually simple except Philotarsus. Phallosome variable; aedeagus rounded (most of Mesopsocidae and Philotarsidae) or pointed apically; phallobase united and rounded apically; endophallus with (Bryopsocidae, Peripsocidae, and some Philotarsidae) or without sclerites. Female genitalia: epiproct usually rectangular in dorsal aspect except rounded in Bryopsocidae. Subgenital plate with 1-lobed egg guide extended from dorsal margin. Gonapophyses complete; ventral valve and dorsal valve strongly united, forming ovipositor; dorsal valve strongly sclerotized, somewhat rectangular in lateral aspect, with or without (Peripsocidae) subapical process; external valve variable.
<==Peripsocoidea |--Bryopsocus Thornton, Wong & Smithers 1977SN04 [BryopsocidaeY02] | |--*B. townsendi (Smithers 1969)NL07, SN04 [=Austropsocus townsendiNL07] | `--B. angulatus (Smithers 1969)SN04 [=Zelandopsocus angulatusNL07] `--+--PeripsocidaeY02 `--+--PhilotarsidaeY02 `--MesopsocidaeY02 | i. s.: Idatenopsocus orientalisY02 | Hexacyrtoma Enderlein 1908SN04 | Newipsocus Badonnel & Lienhard 1988SN04 | Mesopsocopsis Badonnel & Lienhard 1988SN04 | Acmomesopsocus Li 2002L02b | `--*A. tibeticus Li 2002L02b | Aphanomesopsocus Li 2002L02b | |--*A. fuscus Li 2002L02b | |--A. bipunctatus Li 2002L02b | `--A. furvus Li 2002L02b | Oegomesopsocus Li 2002L02b | `--*O. guangxiensis Li 2002L02b | Conomesopsocus Li 2002L02b | |--*C. melanostigmus Li 2002L02b | `--C. meniscatus Li 2001L03 | Microtrichopsocus Badonnel & Lienhard 1988L02b | Rhinopsocus Badonnel & Lienhard 1987L98 | `--R. cincinnatus Lienhard 1988L98 | Cyrtopsochus Costa 1885 [=Cyrtopsocus; incl. Gibbopsocus Badonnel 1975]L98 | |--*C. irroratus Costa 1885L98 | |--C. canariensis (Meinander 1973) [=Mesopsocus canariensis, Cyrtopsocus canariensis]L98 | |--C. gibbosus Lienhard 1988 [=Cyrtopsocus gibbosus]L98 | |--C. nasutus (Enderlein 1907) [=Mesopsocus nasutus; incl. M. dromedarius Ball 1937]L98 | |--C. pustulatus (Badonnel 1975) [=Gibbopsocus pustulatus; incl. G. meridionalis Badonnel 1975]L98 | `--C. truncatus Lienhard 1996L98 |--+--Psoculus Roesler 1954 [Psoculidae]SN04 | | `--*P. neglectus (Roesler 1935) [=Reuterella neglecta]L98 | `--+--Psoculidus Badonnel & Lienhard 1988SN04 | `--Palmicola Mockford 1955SN04 | |--*P. aphrodite Mockford 1955SN04 | `--P. solitaria Mockford 1955M93 `--Mesopsocus Kolbe 1880SN04 (see below for synonymy) |--*M. unipunctatus (Müller 1764)L98 (see below for synonymy) |--M. apterus Kaplin 1990L98 |--M. atlasicus Badonnel 1945L98 |--M. badhysi Kaplin 1990L98 |--M. blancae Baz 1988 [incl. M. andalusicus Baz 1989]L98 |--M. boops (Hagen 1859) [=Psocus boops, Elipsocus boops]SN04 |--M. brachyonematus Li 2002L02b |--M. carthaginensis Lienhard 1988L98 |--M. corniculatus Li 2002 [=M. corniculata]L03 |--M. curvimarginatus Li 2002 [=L. curvimangiratus]L02b |--M. dichotomus Li 2002L02b |--M. diopsis Enderlein 1902E07 [=*Lobocoria diopsisNL07] |--M. dislobus Yoshizawa 1998SN04 |--M. duboscqui Badonnel 1938L98 |--M. fuscifrons Meinander 1966L98 |--M. giganteus Lienhard 1995L98 |--M. graecus Lienhard 1981L98 |--M. helvsticus Lienhard 1977L02b [=M. duboscqui helveticusL98] |--M. hiemalis Marikovsky 1957L98 |--M. hongkongensis Thornton 1959SN04 |--M. immunis (Stephens 1836) [=Psocus immunis; incl. M. lusitanus Lienhard 1981]M93 |--M. jiensis Li 2002L02b |--M. jinicus Li 2002L02b |--M. kopetdaghensis Kaplin 1992L98 |--M. laricolus Li 2002L02b [=M. laricisL02a] |--M. laterimaculatus Ball 1937 [incl. M. africanus Baz 1989, M. maroccanus Badonnel 1945]L98 |--M. laticeps (Kolbe 1880)SN04 (see below for synonymy) |--M. montinus Enderlein 1907E07 |--M. neimongolicus Li 2002L02b |--M. nigrimaculatus Li 2002L02b |--M. phaeodematus Li 2002L02b |--M. salignus Li 2002L02b |--M. stenoperus Li 2002 [=M. stenopterou]L02b |--M. strongylotus Li 2002L02b |--M. troodos Lienhard 1995L98 |--M. vernus Lienhard 1977L98 |--M. wardi Meinander 1973L98 |--M. yemenitus Lienhard 1988L98 |--M. yeni New 1991SN04 `--M. ypsilon Ball 1937 [incl. M. fuscilabrum Baz 1989]L98
Mesopsocus Kolbe 1880SN04 [incl. Holoneura Tetens 1891L02b, Lobocoria Enderlein 1910L02b, Trocticus Bertkau 1883L02b]
Mesopsocus laticeps (Kolbe 1880)SN04 [=Elipsocus laticepsNL07, *Holoneura laticepsNL07; incl. Mesopsocus laticeps ab. pedunculata Enderlein 1901L98]
*Mesopsocus unipunctatus (Müller 1764)L98 [=Hemerobius unipunctatusNL07, Elipsocus unipunctatusM93, Holoneura unipunctatusM93; incl. Hemerobius aphidioides Schrank 1781L98, Elipsocus aphidioidesM93, Mesopsocus unipunctatus var. bifasciatus Enderlein 1906L98, M. unipunctatus var. borealis Enderlein 1910L98, M. unipunctatus var. fasciatus Enderlein 1906L98, *Trocticus gibbulus Bertkau 1883NL07, L98, Psocus longicornis Stephens 1836 non Hemerobius longicornis Fabricius 1777 (not preoc. if dif. gen.)L98, P. naso Rambur 1842L98, P. obliteratus Zetterstedt 1840L98, P. oculatus Zetterstedt 1840L98, P. signatus Hagen 1861L98, Elipsocus signatusM93, Mesopsocus unipunctatus var. subfuscus Enderlein 1906L98, Caecilius vitripennis Curtis 1837L98]
*Type species of generic name indicated
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