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Zygentoma
| Zygentoma Temporal range:
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| The firebrat (Thermobia domestica) (Lepismatidae) typical of the order Zygentoma | |
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| Atelura formicaria (Nicoletiidae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| (unranked): | Dicondylia |
| Order: | Zygentoma Börner, 1904 |
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Zygentoma are an order in the class Insecta, and consist of about 550 known species.[1] The Zygentoma include the so-called silverfish or fishmoths, and the firebrats. A conspicuous feature of the order are the three long caudal filaments. The two lateral filaments are cerci, and the medial one is an epiproct or appendix dorsalis. In this they resemble the Archaeognatha, although the cerci of Zygentoma, unlike in the latter order, are nearly as long as the epiproct.[2]
Until the late twentieth century the Zygentoma were regarded as a suborder of the Thysanura,[3] until it was recognized that the order Thysanura was paraphyletic, thus raising the two suborders to the status of independent monophyletic orders, with Archaeognatha as sister group to the Dicondylia, including the Zygentoma.[4][5][page needed]
- ^ Elven, H; Aarvik, Leif (2018). "Børstehaler Zygentoma". Artsdatabanken (in Norwegian). Naturhistorisk museum, University of Oslo. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
- ^ Gibb, Timothy J. (2014). Contemporary Insect Diagnostics: The Art and Science of Practical Entomology. Academic Press. pp. 1–345. ISBN 978-0-12-404692-4. Retrieved 2014-10-27.
- ^ Richards, O. W.; Davies, R.G. (1977). Imms' General Textbook of Entomology: Volume 1: Structure, Physiology and Development Volume 2: Classification and Biology. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-412-61390-5.
- ^ Blanke, Alexander; Koch, Markus; Wipfler, Benjamin; Wilde, Fabian; Misof, Bernhard (2014). "Head morphology of Tricholepidion gertschi indicates monophyletic Zygentoma". Frontiers in Zoology. 11 (16): 1–19. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-11-16. PMC 3975249. PMID 24625269.
- ^ Gullan, Penny J.; Cranston, Peter S. (2014-11-03). The Insects: An Outline of Entomology. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1–624. ISBN 978-1-118-84615-5.
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