Maindroniidae
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| Maindronia bashagardensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Zygentoma |
| Family: | Maindroniidae Escherich, 1905 |
| Genus: | Maindronia Bouvier, 1897 |
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Maindroniidae is a small family of silverfish, basal insects belonging to the order Zygentoma. It contains a single genus, Maindronia, and a handful of species.
Four species of these insects are found in deserts: in Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Atacama Desert on the west coast of Chile. The distribution of these closely related species suggests that Maindronia is a Gondwanan relict group.[1] In 2020, a new species in this family, Maindronia bashagardensis, was discovered in Hormozgan province, Iran.[2]
Maindronia currently comprises four described species:[2]
- Maindronia bashagardensis Smith & Molero-Baltanás, 2020 – Iran
- Maindronia beieri Schremmer, 1964 – Sudan
- Maindronia mascatensis Bouvier, 1897 – Oman and UAE
- Maindronia neotropicalis Bouvier, 1897 – Peru and Chile
In 2019, a phylogenetic study using the Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and the 18S genes showed that Maindronia neotropicalis, inhabiting the Chilean Atacama desert, is an assemblage of five genetic lineages that diverged from a common ancestor around 15 million years ago. All of these five lineages are likely well-separated species, and await formal description.[1][3]
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