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Photo by LaurenZarate

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Field Notes

Description:

This is our largest Bark Louse species in our forest areas. About 8-9 mm long and beautifully patterned in black and yellow. Family Psocidae.
See this spotting of the mother bark louse tending to newly hatched babies
(https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/701384961).

Habitat:

Deep shade, Forest, about 5 km up Mt. Huitepec, west of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.

Notes:

http://www.americaninsects.net/pso/cerastipsocus-venosus.html

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Thank you Mark and Paul :)

Great find and capture.

What a beauty.

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