Dilian Georgiev
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2885-4895
7 April 2022 ·
volume 44 · (
issue 3) · pp. 25–29 ·
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Abstract: A new species of Thylacella was collected from Unguja Island (Zanzibar, Tanzania) and described in this paper. A simple identification key is also proposed for all the species known from Africa and Madagascar. Now from this genus a total of 19 recent and two fossil species are known.
Keywords: Africa, identification key, Madagascar, new species, Psocoptera
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