Pedetontus Unimaculatus
''Pedetontus'' is a genus of jumping bristletails in the family Machilidae The Machilidae are a family of insects belonging to the order Archaeognatha (the bristletails). There are around 250 described species worldwide. These insects are wingless, elongated and more or less cylindrical with a distinctive humped thorax .... There are about 10 described species in ''Pedetontus''. Species * '' Pedetontus calcaratus'' (Silvestri, 1911) * '' Pedetontus californicus'' (Silvestri, 1911) * '' Pedetontus gershneri'' Allen, 1995 * '' Pedetontus palaearcticus'' Silvestri, 1925 * '' Pedetontus persquamosus'' (Silvestri, 1911) * '' Pedetontus saltator'' Wygodzinsky & Schmidt, 1980 (jumping bristletail) * '' Pedetontus schicki'' Sturm, 2001 * '' Pedetontus submutans'' (Silvestri, 1911) * '' Pedetontus superior'' (Silvestri, 1911) * '' Pedetontus yosemite'' Sturm, 2001 References Further reading * insect genera {{archaeognatha-stub ...
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Jumping Bristletail
The Archaeognatha are an order of apterygotes, known by various common names such as jumping bristletails. Among extant insect taxa they are some of the most evolutionarily primitive; they appeared in the Middle Devonian period at about the same time as the arachnids. Specimens that closely resemble extant species have been found as both body and trace fossils (the latter including body imprints and trackways) in strata from the remainder of the Paleozoic Era and more recent periods. For historical reasons an alternative name for the order is Microcoryphia. Until the late 20th century the suborders Zygentoma and Archaeognatha comprised the order Thysanura; both orders possess three-pronged tails comprising two lateral cerci and a medial epiproct or ''appendix dorsalis''. Of the three organs, the appendix dorsalis is considerably longer than the two cerci; in this the Archaeognatha differ from the Zygentoma, in which the three organs are subequal in length. In the late 20th cen ...
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