''Petrobius'' is a genus of
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 sa ...
s 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 thor ...
. Many of these primitive
insects are restricted to rocky
shorelines.
Species
Species include:
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Petrobius adriaticus
''Petrobius adriaticus'' is a species of jumping bristletail 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 insec ...
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Petrobius artemisiae
''Petrobius artemisiae'' is a species of jumping bristletail 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 insec ...
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Petrobius brevistylis
''Petrobius brevistylis'' is a species of jumping bristletail 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 inse ...
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Petrobius calcaratus
''Petrobius'' is a genus of jumping bristletails in the family Machilidae. Many of these primitive insects are restricted to rocky shorelines.
Species
Species include:
*''Petrobius adriaticus''
*''Petrobius artemisiae''
*''Petrobius brevistylis' ...
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Petrobius crimeus
''Petrobius crimeus'' is a species of jumping bristletail 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 ...
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Petrobius maritimus
''Petrobius maritimus'', the shore bristletail or sea bristletail, is a species of Archaeognatha found on rocky shores from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Nethe ...
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*''Petrobius persquamosus''
*''Petrobius submutans''
*''Petrobius superior''
References
*Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe, Michael Chinery 1986 (reprinted 1991)
Archaeognatha
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