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Bark lice/book lice/parasitic lice

Psocodea

10 Comments

thanks for the identification

Joshua_Green
Joshua_Green a year ago

Strange sight!

Raksha
Raksha 4 years ago

Thank you Joseph CHIEF REDEARTH for the ID:)

Raksha
Raksha 4 years ago

Thank you Ornithoptera80 and Gary17 for ID suggestions:)

Ornithoptera80
Ornithoptera80 4 years ago

I am sure that they are a nymph of some cricket species,nice spotting

Gary Walton
Gary Walton 4 years ago

SukanyaDatta, they do look very similar except for the color.

Gary Walton
Gary Walton 4 years ago

Raksha, many true bug nymphs live in colonies for several molt cycles so maybe they are Hemiptera. Also, earlier today while I was trying to figure out a bug I'd found I came across a group in the Hemiptera that look similar to ants (which yours remind me of). These were north American species but I don't doubt that there are ones like them in India. Of course, I might be a way of but its probably worth a look.

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta 4 years ago

I have a somewhat similar spotting...unfortunately no ID as yet.

https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/14...

Raksha
Raksha 4 years ago

Gary17 am not sure what they are, it looked like they were feeding on the wood and they moved as a colony.

Gary Walton
Gary Walton 4 years ago

Strange looking! Could they be nymphs of some insect?

Raksha
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Raksha

Kalpetta, Kerala, India

Spotted on Aug 16, 2019
Submitted on Aug 16, 2019

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