• Source: Maindroniidae

Maindroniidae is a very small family of silverfish, basal insects belonging to the order Zygentoma. It contains just a single genus, Maindronia, and a handful of species.
Four species of these insects are found in some of the driest deserts on Earth: 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. A new species in this family was recently discovered in Hormozgan province, Iran.
Maindronia currently comprises four described species:

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
Recent findings from a phylogenetic study using the Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and the 18S genes showed that Maindronia neotropicalis, inhabiting the Chilean Atacama desert, is in fact 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 they await formal description.




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Systematics of family
Hogue, Charles Leonard (1993). "Silverfish". Latin American Insects and Entomology. University of California Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-520-07849-9.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Thysanura
• Maindroniidae
• Zygentoma
• Lepismatidae
• Lepidotrichidae
• Silverfish (disambiguation)
• Ctenolepisma longicaudatum
• Nicoletiidae
• Thermobia aegyptiaca