Barklice & Booklice

All images on this website have been taken in Leicestershire and Rutland by NatureSpot members. We welcome new contributions - just register and use the Submit Records form to post your photos. Click on any image below to visit the species page. The RED / AMBER / GREEN dots indicate how easy it is to identify the species - see our Identification Difficulty page for more information. A coloured rating followed by an exclamation mark denotes that different ID difficulties apply to either males and females or to the larvae - see the species page for more detail.

Barkflies and booklice are insects in the order Psocoptera. One hundred species have been recorded in Britain which, compared to other insect groups, is not a dauntingly large number to learn to identify. There are two distinct groups: species that occur outdoors (barkflies) and those that are only recorded indoors (booklice).

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Leicestershire and Rutland resources

None known.

Useful websites and publications

Barkflies - National Recording Scheme - excellent guide to Pscoptera. Good gallery plus a superb on-line key to guide you to an identification.

British Barkflies (and Booklice) (RES handbook vol. 1 Part 7)

If you know of other websites or books that you would recommend, do let us know: info@naturespot.co.uk