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 Trust - Wicken Fen nature reserve species data held by The National Trust
- National Barkfly Recording Scheme - Outdoor Psocoptera (barkfly) records for Britain & Ireland, 1850 to present.
- Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre - BRERC October 2009
- Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre - Patrick Roper's Notebooks
- Countryside Council for Wales - Welsh Invertebrate Database (WID)
- Tullie House Museum - Tullie House Museum. Invertebrate Records other than Lepidoptera. Pre-2009 for Cumbria
- Natural England - Invertebrate Site Register - England.
- Worcestershire Biological Records Centre - WBRC Species data for Worcestershire collated by date.

Summary: found on trunks and branches of range of deciduous and evergreen trees/bushes.
Associations:
- Deciduous branches: apple, ash, birch, hawthorn, oak, pear and plum.
- Deciduous trunks: ash, beech, birch, holly and oak.
- Conifer/evergreen branches: holly and yew.
Sampling techniques: beating branches and brushing tree trunks.