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]
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Nicoletiidae is a family of primitive insects belonging to the order Zygentoma. These insects live primarily underground, under detritus, or in caves....
and mobile. The compound eyes tend to be small, and the two families Nicoletiidae and Protrinemuridae, and some troglobitic species, lack eyes entirely...
although other members of Zygentoma are eyeless, such as the family Nicoletiidae. The silverfish, like other species in Apterygota, is wingless. It has...
Atelura formicaria is a species of nicoletiid in the family Nicoletiidae. "Atelura formicaria". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23. Mendes, Luís F. (1996). "Some...
Nicoletia is a genus of silverfish in the family Nicoletiidae. As of 2007, it contains the former members of two other genera. Anelpistina acanthocruris...
Zygentoma. The family was previously classified as a subfamily of the Nicoletiidae, but raised to family level in 2002. The family comprises four genera:...
Prosthecina is a genus of nicoletiids in the family Nicoletiidae. "Prosthecina". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25. Mendes, Luís F. (2002). "Taxonomy of Zygentoma...
Texoreddellia is a genus of nicoletiids in the family Nicoletiidae. There is one described species in Texoreddellia, T. texensis. "Texoreddellia Report"...
Squamigera is a genus of nicoletiids in the family Nicoletiidae. "Squamigera". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25. Mendes, Luís F. (2002). "Taxonomy of Zygentoma...
Atelura valencianica is a species of nicoletiid in the family Nicoletiidae. "Atelura valencianica". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23. Mendes, Luís F. (1996)...
considered an independent family, it is now treated as a subfamily within the Nicoletiidae. They are generally found in association with ants or termites, living...
Atelura montana is a species of nicoletiid in the family Nicoletiidae. "Atelura montana". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23. Mendes, Luís F. (1996). "Some new...
Mendes, Luis F. (2002). "New species and new data on Protrinemuridae and Nicoletiidae (Zygentoma) from Eastern Asia and Pacific islands". Annales de la Société...
Lepidospora is a genus of silverfish in the family Nicoletiidae. Lepidospora afra Silvestri, 1908 Lepidospora alticola Wygodzinsky, 1965 Lepidospora angustotergum...
Mendes, Luis F. (2002). "New species and new data on Protrinemuridae and Nicoletiidae (Zygentoma) from Eastern Asia and Pacific islands". Annales de la Société...
Battigrassiella is a genus of nicoletiids in the family Nicoletiidae, containing one described species, B. wheeleri. "Battigrassiella genus Information"...
Mendes, Luis F. (2002). "New species and new data on Protrinemuridae and Nicoletiidae (Zygentoma) from Eastern Asia and Pacific islands". Annales de la Société...
Nicoletia is a genus of silverfish in the family Nicoletiidae. Most of the ~30 species originally placed in this genus have subsequently been moved into...
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