Acrotelsa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Cladus: Basal Dicondylia
Ordo: Zygentoma

Familia: Lepismatidae
Subfamilia: Acrotelsatinae
Genus: Acrotelsa
Species: A. collaris
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Name

Acrotelsa Escherich, 1905
Type species: Lepisma collaris Fabricius, 1793
Fixation: subsequent designation by Silvestri (1935: 307)

References

Escherich, K. 1905: Das System der Lepismatiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart), 43: 1–164. [not seen]
Silvestri, F. 1935: Marquesan Thysanura. Marquesan Insects II. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 114: 305–312. [not seen]

Links

Australian Faunal Directory
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus

Acrotelsa is a genus of silverfish in the family Lepismatidae. There are at least two described species in Acrotelsa.[1][2]
Species

These two species belong to the genus Acrotelsa:

Acrotelsa collaris (Fabricius, 1793)
Acrotelsa galapagoensis Guthrie

References

"Acrotelsa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2020-01-25.

"Acrotelsa". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.

Further reading

Mendes, Luís F. (2002). "Taxonomy of Zygentoma and Microcoryphia: historical overview, present status and goals for the new millennium". Pedobiologia. 46 (3–4): 225–233. doi:10.1078/0031-4056-00129.
Mendes, Luís F. (1996). "Some new data on the Microcoryphia and Zygentoma (Insecta) from the United States". Garcia de Orta, Série Zoologia. 21 (1): 117–126. ISSN 0870-0001.