Petrobius

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Petrobius
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Archaeognatha
Family: Machilidae
Genus: Petrobius
Leach, 1809[1]
Synonyms

Halomachilis Verhoeff, 1912

Petrobius is a genus of jumping bristletails in the family Machilidae. Many of these ancestral insects are restricted to rocky shorelines[2] especially of northern Europe and America.[3]

Species

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The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:[3]

  1. Petrobius adriaticus Verhoeff, 1910
  2. Petrobius artemisiae Mendes, 1980
  3. Petrobius brevistylis Carpenter, 1913
  4. Petrobius canadensis Paclt, 1969
  5. Petrobius crimeus Kaplin, 1983
  6. Petrobius imbricatus Koch & Berendt, 1854
  7. Petrobius lohmanderi Agrell, 1944
  8. Petrobius maritimus (Leach, 1809)
  9. Petrobius montanus Kaplin, 2021
  10. Petrobius ponticus Wygodzinsky, 1959

References

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  1. ^ Leach WE (1817) The zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. E. Nodder & Son, London. Vol. 3: i-v; 1-151; pls. 121-150.
  2. ^ Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe, Michael Chinery 1986 (reprinted 1991) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  3. ^ a b Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Petrobius Leach, 1809 (retrieved 12 January 2025)
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