psocid

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter

Borrowed from translingual Psocidae.

The Campodea-form appears in most of the Pseudoneuroptera [Libellulids, Ephemerids, Perlids, Psocids and Termes], Orthoptera, Coleoptera, Neuroptera, perhaps modified in the Strepsiptera [Stylops and Xenos] and Coccidæ in their first stage of development, and indeed in many of these at their first moult." — Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

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