#4044 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Peters' barklouse
Ectopsocus petersi
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 Meppel, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 3431 RD Nieuwegein, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nieuweweg 65, Nederland
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Benjamin ZELVELDER · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Ian Boyd · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © javixu · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Meppel, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 3431 RD Nieuwegein, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Groesbeek, Nieuweweg 65, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Ectopsocus petersi is a species of Psocoptera from Stenopsocidae family that can be found in Great Britain and Ireland. The species are brownish-orange coloured and is similar to Ectopsocus briggsi.
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 65 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,862 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Peters' barklouse
- scientific name
- Ectopsocus petersi
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Psocodea
- family
- Ectopsocidae
- sightings in NL
- 65
- sightings in Europe
- 1,137
- sightings worldwide
- 2,862
- GBIF records in NL
- 138
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Ectopsocidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 321933, Wikidata Q5334306, GBIF 1031394, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.