#4092 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Ectopsocus briggsi
Ectopsocus briggsi
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Ectopsocus briggsi is a species of Psocoptera from Ectopsocidae family that can be found in Great Britain and Ireland. The species are brownish-orange coloured.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 30 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,196 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Robert McLachlan in 1899 (127 years ago).
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Ectopsocus briggsi
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Psocodea
- family
- Ectopsocidae
- sightings in NL
- 30
- sightings in Europe
- 407
- sightings worldwide
- 1,196
- GBIF records in NL
- 69
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1899 by Robert McLachlan
relatives· Ectopsocidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 270671, Wikidata Q71797, GBIF 1031400, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.