Nicoletiidae
Family of silverfishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicoletiidae is a family of primitive insects belonging to the order Zygentoma. These insects live primarily underground, under detritus, or in caves. A few species are recorded as commensals inside nests of social insects, such as the species Allotrichotriura saevissima which lives inside fire ant nests.[1] Nicoletiidae don't have eyes as other existing species and they lack pigment. They have medium size, with extended antennae and terminal filaments.[2] Coletinia, a genus of this family, has many characters including a body length that ranges between 10 and 15mm. They may have yellowish pigmentation but most of them are transparent.[3] They have bilayered and very large acrosome, a short nucleus including chromatin being really condensed with tubular invaginations and sperm length and head size classified as short. [4]
Nicoletiidae | |
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Atelura formicaria | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Zygentoma |
Family: | Nicoletiidae Escherich, 1905 |
Subfamilies include[1] | |
Atelurinae |