Ectopsocid

Ectopsocus briggsi · Order: Psocodea · Family: Ectopsocidae

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Ectopsocid
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Ectopsocus briggsi is brownish-orange in colour. It lives on many trees and shrubs such as alder, oak, birch and also in haystacks and leaf litter. The species is found in Great Britain and Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

The bug is brownish-orange.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Ectopsocus briggsi is found in Great Britain and Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 5 of 51 states and DC. Most records: California, Washington, Massachusetts, Oregon, Delaware.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Ectopsocid photo 3
Photo: Chris Baer, CC BY

Same family (Ectopsocidae)

Peters' barklousePeters' barklouseEctopsocus petersiLarge-winged PsocidLarge-winged PsocidEctopsocopsis cryptomeriae

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopsocus_briggsi

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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