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Ectopsocus briggsi

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Ectopsocus briggsi is a species in the family Ectopsocidae, order Psocodea. Source checklists list it for 3 countries: Bulgaria, Iran and South Africa.

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Quick facts about Ectopsocus briggsi

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
3 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does Ectopsocus briggsi live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Ectopsocus briggsi is listed for 3 countries.

South AfricaIranBulgaria
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Bulgaria
  2. Iran
  3. South Africa

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Ectopsocus briggsi as introduced in 4 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. Swedeninvasive
  2. Belgium
  3. Estonia
  4. Poland

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Ectopsocus briggsi endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Ectopsocus briggsi classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderPsocodea
  5. familyEctopsocidae
  6. genusEctopsocus
  7. SpeciesEctopsocus briggsi McLachlan, 1899

Synonyms Ectopsocus borealis, Ectopsocus limbatus, Ectopsocus parvulus

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • 외다듬이벌레Korean
  • småfläckig rektangelstövsländaSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Ectopsocus briggsi

Other species in the same genus Ectopsocus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Ectopsocus briggsi live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Ectopsocus briggsi for 3 countries: Bulgaria, Iran and South Africa. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is Ectopsocus briggsi an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags Ectopsocus briggsi as invasive in 1 country: Sweden. It lists it as introduced in 4 in all.

What kind of animal is Ectopsocus briggsi?

Ectopsocus briggsi (Ectopsocus briggsi) belongs to the family Ectopsocidae in the order Psocodea.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Ectopsocus briggsi (Ectopsocus briggsi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/ectopsocus-briggsi

MLA

“Ectopsocus briggsi (Ectopsocus briggsi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/ectopsocus-briggsi.

BibTeX
@misc{ectopsocus_briggsi_2026,
  title = {Ectopsocus briggsi (Ectopsocus briggsi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ectopsocus-briggsi},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}