Ctenolepisma

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Ctenolepisma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Apterygota
Order: Thysanura
Family: Lepismatidae
Genus: Ctenolepisma
Escherich, 1905
Species include

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Ctenolepisma is a genus of primitive insects closely related to the silverfish and firebrat but less reliant on human habitation, some species being found both indoors and outdoors and some found exclusively outdoors.

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Species include:

  • Ctenolepisma albida
  • Ctenolepisma algharbica
  • Ctenolepisma almeriensis
  • Ctenolepisma canariensis
  • Ctenolepisma ciliata
  • Ctenolepisma diversisquamis
  • Ctenolepisma guadianica
  • Ctenolepisma guanche
  • Ctenolepisma insulicola
  • Ctenolepisma lineata - four-lined silverfish
  • Ctenolepisma longicaudata - grey silverfish
  • Ctenolepisma michaelseni
  • Ctenolepisma rodriguezi
  • Ctenolepisma targionii
  • Ctenolepisma vieirai

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