Monura is an extinct suborder of wingless insects in 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 ...

. They resembled their modern relatives, the silverfish, and had a single lengthy filament projecting from the end of the

abdomen The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates. The abdomen is the front part of the abdominal segment of the to ...

. They also had a pair of leg-like cerci and some non-ambulatory abdominal appendages. The largest specimens reached or more, not counting the length of the filament.

Taxonomy

* Suborder †Monura Sharov 1957 stat. nov. Carpenter 1992 ** Family † Dasyleptidae Sharov 1957 *** Genus †'' Tonganoxichnus'' Mángano et al. 1997 (ichnotaxa) *** Genus †'' Dasyleptus'' Brongniart 1885

References

Entognatha Carboniferous insects Pennsylvanian insects Permian insects Paleozoic insects of North America Carboniferous animals of North America Permian animals of North America Extinct insect orders Pennsylvanian first appearances Permian extinctions {{carboniferous-animal-stub