Japygoidea
| Japygoidea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Entognatha |
| Order: | Diplura |
| Suborder: | Dicellurata Cook, 1896 |
| Superfamily: | Japygoidea Lubbock, 1873 |
Dicellurata is a suborder of two-pronged bristletails in the order Diplura. There are at least 4 families and more than 170 described species in Dicellurata.[1][2] Japygoidea is the only superfamily in the suborder.
Families
[edit]These four families belong to the suborder Dicellurata:
- Dinjapygidae Womersley, 1939
- Heterojapygidae
- Japygidae Lubbock, 1873 (forcepstails)
- Parajapygidae Womersley, 1939
Characteristic cerci of Japygoidea
References
[edit]- ↑ "Dicellurata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ↑ "Dicellurata Suborder Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
Further reading
[edit]- Allen, Robert T. (2002). "A synopsis of the Diplura of North America: Keys to higher taxa, systematics, distributions and descriptions of new taxa (Arthropoda: Insecta)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 128 (4): 403–466. ISSN 0002-8320. JSTOR 25078790.