''Machiloides banksi'' is a species of rock bristletail, family of

basal Basal or basilar is a term meaning ''base'', ''bottom'', or ''minimum''. Science * Basal (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features associated with the base of an organism or structure * Basal (medicine), a minimal level that is nec ...

insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs ...

s belonging to the order

Archaeognatha 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 sa ...

, in the genus ''

Machiloides ''Machiloides'' is a genus of rock bristletails in the family Meinertellidae The Meinertellidae are a small family of basal insects belonging to the order Archaeognatha. They are sometimes known as rock bristletails. These insects can be dist ...

''.Wygodzinsky, Pedro, and Kathleen Schmidt (1980) Survey of the Microcoryphia (Insecta) of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Provinces of Canada, American Museum Novitates, no. 2701Mendes, Luís F. (1989) Novos dados sobre os tisanuros (Microcoryphia e Zygentoma) da América do Norte, Garcia de Orta, Série Zoologia, vol. 16, nos. 1-2Mendes, Luís F. (1981) Notes et description de Thysanoures du Nouveau Monde (Apterygota: Microcoryphia et Zygentoma), Nouvelle Revue de Entomologie, vol. 11, no. 3Silvestri, F. (1911) Contributo alla conoscenza die Machilidae dell' America settentrionale, Bolletino del Laboratorio di Zoologia generale e agraria di Portici, vol. 5''ITIS: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System''. Orrell T. (custodian), 2011-04-26

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Archaeognatha Insects described in 1911 {{Archaeognatha-stub