#psocid

(pls excuse the close-up of my hand/arm it did not want to stay on the nice white paper :))

Photo by @purrdence, in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (the Great Harbour of Tara), which is also known as Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Wellington is the southernmost capital city in the world, as well as the windiest, so having such a fantastic harbour was probably very fortunate.

AKA Psocus australis, Myopsocus australis, Myopsocus novaezealandiae, and Psocus zelandicus

Most psocids, like the Booklouse, live in damp environments, but the larger and often intricately marked barklice may be found living in groups on treetrunks and branches, grazing on lichen, fungi, pollen and algae. They have a soft body, long thin antennae, broad heads, biting jaws and bulbous eyes. Large species may be 1cm in length. Some species live in organized communities beneath a fine net spun from glands in their mouths.

One of Australia’s wide range of really beautiful barklice. I’m amazed that I stumbled over an ID for this one - it’s a complicated Order, formerly Psocoptera, but now Psocodea since the True Lice turned out to be a specialised group within the Barklice, most closely related to the Booklice. 

A large genus, most diverse in Asia, usually found in leaf litter and among dead leaves.

Shaken off eucalypts in front of the hotel in Wongan Hills.

The Caeciliusidae was once named Caeciliidae, but was changed to avoid confusion with the legless amphibian family of the same name. There are at least 40 genera and 650 described species in family, which is widespread around the world.

An absolutely charming tiny Psocid at the visitors center. You may carry on.