Lepismatidae

Heterolepisma sp., copyright Graeme Smith.

Belongs within: Zygentoma.

The Lepismatidae are a group of silverfish in which the body is covered with scales (Smith & Watson 1991).

<==Lepismatidae
    |  i. s.: Leucolepisma arenaria Wall 1954 F90
    |         Stylifera gigantea Escherich 1905 F90
    |         Mirolepisma deserticola Silvestri 1938 F90
    |         Lepismodes inquilinus SW91
    |         Onycholepisma arizonae MP08
    |         Peliolepisma RD77
    |         Pachystylus P92
    |         Lampropholis burmiticus Cockerell 1917 P92
    |--Acrotelsa Escherich 1905 W39 [Acrotelsatinae MP08]
    |    `--A. collaris (Fabricius 1793) [incl. Lepisma mucronata Packard 1873] F90
    |--Lepismatinae [Ctenolepismatidae] MP08
    |    |--Paracrotelsa MP08
    |    |--Tricholepisma Paclt 1967 MP08
    |    |--Afrolepisma Mendes 1981 MP08
    |    |--Neoasterolepisma Mendes 1988 MP08
    |    |--Lepitrochisma Mendes 1988 MP08
    |    |--Burmalepisma Mendes & Poinar 2008 MP08
    |    |    `--*B. cretacicum Mendes & Poinar 2008 MP08
    |    |--Xenolepisma Mendes 1981 MP08
    |    |    `--X. penangi SE12
    |    |--Allacrotelsa Silvestri 1934 W39
    |    |    |--A. burmitica R02
    |    |    |--A. dubia R02
    |    |    `--A. spinulata (Packard 1873) [incl. Stachisma mexicana Wygodzinsky 1949] F90
    |    |--Lepisma Linnaeus 1758 W39
    |    |    |--*L. saccharina Linnaeus 1758 W39
    |    |    |--L. lineata SJ92
    |    |    |--L. niveofasciata G89
    |    |    `--L. terrestris Linnaeus 1758 L58
    |    |--Mormisma MP08
    |    |--Acrotelsella Silvestri 1934 W39
    |    |    |--A. devriesiana (Silvestri 1908) [=Acrotelsa devriesiana] W39
    |    |    |    |--A. d. devriesiana W39
    |    |    |    |--A. d. perspinata W39 [=Acrotelsa devriesiana perspinata NR26]
    |    |    |    `--A. d. westralis (Nicholls & Richardson 1925) W39 [=Acrotelsa westralis NR26]
    |    |    |--A. escherichi Womersley 1939 W39
    |    |    |--A. producta (Escherich 1905) [=Acrotelsa producta] W39
    |    |    |--A. silvestri Womersley 1939 W39
    |    |    `--A. splendens (Nicholls & Richardson 1925) (see below for synonymy) W39
    |    |--Thermobia Bergroth 1890 W39
    |    |    |--T. campbelli (Barnhart 1951) F90
    |    |    `--T. domestica (Packard 1873) SC17, F90 [incl. Thermophila furnorum Rovelli 1889 W39]
    |    `--Ctenolepisma Escherich 1905 W39
    |         |--C. burmanica MP08
    |         |--C. ciliata (Dufour 1831) F90
    |         |--C. diversisquamis Silvestri 1908 [incl. C. reducta Folsom 1923] F90
    |         |--C. lineata RS10
    |         |    |--C. l. lineata F90
    |         |    `--C. l. pilifera (Lucas 1840) (see below for synonymy) F90
    |         |--C. longicaudata Escherich 1905 [incl. C. urbana Slabaugh 1940] F90
    |         |--C. targionii (Grassi & Rovelli 1889) F90
    |         `--C. terebrans C90
    `--Heterolepismatinae S13
         |--Anisolepisma Paclt 1967 MC13, S13
         |    `--*A. hartmeyeri (Silvestri 1908) [=Heterolepisma hartmeyeri] S13
         `--Heterolepisma Escherich 1905 [incl. Isolepisma Escherich 1905, Notolepisma Tillyard 1924] S13
              |--*H. pampeana (Silvestri 1902) [=Lepisma pampeana] S13
              |--H. andina (Silvestri 1902) [=Lepisma andina] S13
              |--H. annectans (Silvestri 1924) S13
              |--H. bisetosa (Carpenter 1916) S13
              |--H. dispar Uchida 1944 S13
              |--H. exacta (Silvestri 1918) S13
              |--H. horni Stach 1933 S13
              |--H. howensis Womersley 1942 S13
              |--H. insularis (Banks 1901) S13
              |--H. japonica (Uchida 1968) S13
              |--H. kraepelini Silvestri 1908 S13
              |--H. michaelseni Silvestri 1908 S13
              |--H. mossambicensis Mendes 1993 S13
              |--H. parva Smith 2013 S13
              |--H. primafra (Silvestri 1949) S13
              |--H. rouxi (Silvestri 1915) S13
              |--H. serranoi Mendes 2011 S13
              |--H. stilivarians Silvestri 1908 S13
              |--H. trisetosa (Escherich 1905) [=*Isolepisma trisetosa] S13
              `--H. zealandica (Tillyard 1924) [=*Notolepisma zealandica] S13

Acrotelsella splendens (Nicholls & Richardson 1925) [=Acrotelsa splendens; incl. Acrotelsella producta var. pacifica Silvestri 1934, Acrotelsella producta var. procedens Silvestri 1934] W39

Ctenolepisma lineata pilifera (Lucas 1840) [incl. Lepisma quadriseriata Packard 1873, L. reticulata Schött 1897, L. rubroviolacea Schött 1897] F90

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

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[F90] Ferguson, L. M. 1990. Insecta: Microcoryphia and Thysanura. In: Dindal, D. L. (ed.) Soil Biology Guide pp. 935–949. John Wiley & Sones: New York.

[G89] Gestro, R. 1889. Viaggio ab Assab nel Mar Rosso dei signori G. Doria ed O. Beccari con il R. Avviso “Esploratore” dal 16 Novembre 1879 al 26 Febbraio 1880.—IV. Coleotteri. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2^a, 7: 5–72.

[L58] Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae.

[MC13] Majer, J. D., S. K. Callan, K. Edwards, N. R. Gunawardene & C. K. Taylor. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 83: 13–112.

[MP08] Mendes, L. F., & G. O. Poinar. 2008. A new fossil silverfish (Zygentoma: Insecta) in Mesozoic Burmese amber. European Journal of Soil Biology 44: 491–494.

[NR26] Nicholls, G. E., & K. E. Richardson. 1926. A description of two new species of Acrotelsa. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 12 (15): 133–140.

[P92] Poinar, G. O., Jr. 1992. Life in Amber. Stanford University Press: Stanford.

[R02] Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2002. Subclass Lepismatona Latreille, 1804. The wingless insects (=Thysanura Latreille 1796, s. l.) In: Rasnitsyn, A. P., & D. L. J. Quicke (eds) History of Insects pp. 69–74. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht.

[RS10] Regier, J. C., J. W. Shultz, A. Zwick, A. Hussey, B. Ball, R. Wetzer, J. W. Martin & C. W. Cunningham. 2010. Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences. Nature 463: 1079–1083.

[RD77] Richards, O. W., & R. G. Davies. 1977. Imms' General Textbook of Entomology 10^th ed. vol. 2. Classification and Biology. Chapman and Hall: London.

[SJ92] Schlegel, H. G., & H. W. Jannasch. 1992. Prokaryotes and their habitats. In: Balows, A., H. G. Trüper, M. Dworkin, W. Harder & K.-H. Schleifer (eds) The Prokaryotes: A handbook on the biology of bacteria: Ecophysiology, isolation, identification, applications 2^nd ed. vol. 1 pp. 75–125. Springer-Verlag: New York.

[SC17] Schwentner, M., D. J. Combosch, J. P. Nelson & G. Giribet. 2017. A phylogenomic solution to the origin of insects by resolving crustacean-hexapod relationships. Current Biology 27: 1818–1824.

[S13] Smith, G. 2013. A new species of Heterolepisma from Barrow Island (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 83: 229–240.

[SE12] Smith, G. B., S. M. Eberhard, G. Perina & T. Finston. 2012. New species of short range endemic troglobitic silverfish (Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from subterranean habitats in Western Australia's semi-arid Pilbara region. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27 (2): 101–116.

[SW91] Smith, G. B., & J. A. L. Watson. 1991. Thysanura. Zygentoma (silverfish). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers 2^nd ed. vol. 1 pp. 275–278. Melbourne University Press: Carlton (Victoria).

[W39] Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia: Silverfish, springtails, and their allies. South Australian Branch of the British Science Guild: Adelaide.