
Belongs within: Psocinae.
Psocidus is a genus of barklice historically used as a ‘holding genus’ for species of Psocini that could not be attributed to the restricted genus Psocus, but since redefined to include a smaller assemblage of species found in Africa and southern Asia (New & Lienhard 2007).
Characters (from New & Lienhard 2007): Male with hypandrium bearing setose apical lobe; phallosome with long anterior lateral arms, lateral apophyses, and pair of long inner sclerites; paraprocts bearing two trichobothrial fields, corresponding to main field divided by sensilla-free zone.
<==Psocidus Pearman 1934L02 [=Psocodus (l. c.)L03; incl. Clistopsocus Navas 1924L02, Sigmatina Enderlein 1925L02]
|--*P. zanzibarensis Pearman 1934L02
|--P. albovarius (Banks 1920)NL07
|--P. apertus Thornton 1984NL07
|--P. arenosus (Navás 1922)NL07
|--P. bifurcatus Li 2002 [=P. bicruris Li 2002 non Li 1990]L03
|--P. biguttatusB55
|--P. borneensis (Banks 1920)NL07
|--P. divisus (Navás 1922)NL07
|--P. femoratus (MacLachlan 1866)L02
|--P. filicornis Enderlein 1903L02
|--P. gloriosus (Banks 1920)NL07
|--P. guilinensis Li 2002L02
|--P. guttulatus Pearman 1934B55
|--P. hainanensis Li 2002L02
|--P. jacobsoni (Enderlein 1907)NL07
|--P. javanicus (Enderlein 1907)NL07
|--P. lacroixi (Navás 1920)NL07
|--P. lestagei (Navás 1922)NL07
|--P. lobatus Endang & Thornton 1992NL07
|--P. longicaudisB55
|--P. luotongshanicus Li 2002L02
|--P. masinus (Navás 1923)NL07
|--P. murphyi New 1975NL07
|--P. oxyurus Badonnel 1955B55
|--P. peregrans Vaughan, Thornton & New 1989NL07
|--P. proctus Vaughan, Thornton & New 1989NL07
|--P. reidi Thornton 1984NL07
|--P. relativus (Banks 1920)NL07
|--P. samchiensis New 1978L02
|--P. sauteri (Enderlein 1908)L02
|--P. segmentatus Endang & Thornton 1992NL07
|--P. similaris (Banks 1920)NL07
|--P. strictus Thornton 1960L02
|--P. tacaoensis (Enderlein 1908)L02
|--P. tergatus Endang & Thornton 1992NL07
|--P. validus Thornton 1960NL07
|--P. viscayanus (Banks 1920)NL07
`--P. vitalisi (Navás 1922)NL07
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B55] Badonnel, A. 1955. Psocoptères de l’Angola. Diamang Publicações Culturais 26: 11–267.
[L02] Li F. 2002. Psocoptera of China vol. 2. Science Press: Beijing.
[L03] Lienhard, C. 2003. Nomenclatural amendments concerning Chinese Psocoptera (Insecta), with remarks on species richness. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 110 (4): 695–721.
[NL07] New, T. R., & C. Lienhard. 2007. The Psocoptera of Tropical South-east Asia. Brill: Leiden.