Uncommon in Britain and Ireland
The National Biodiversity Network records are shown on the map below.
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The following datasets are included:
- National Barkfly Recording Scheme - Outdoor Psocoptera (barkfly) records for Britain & Ireland, 1850 to present.
- Tullie House Museum - Tullie House Museum. Invertebrate Records other than Lepidoptera. Pre-2009 for Cumbria
- Natural England - Invertebrate Site Register - England.
- Scottish Wildlife Trust - Commissioned surveys and staff surveys and reports for SWT reserves.
Summary: usually associated with conifer branches; very rare on deciduous trees.
Associations:
- Deciduous branches: oak.
- Conifer/evergreen branches: juniper, pine, sitka spruce, western gorse and yew.
Sampling techniques: beating branches.
