Hemilepisma

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zygentoma
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Ordo: Zygentoma

Familia: Lepismatidae
Subfamilia: Silvestrellinae
Genus: Hemilepisma
Species: H. heymonsi

Name

Hemilepisma Paclt, 1967

Gender: neuter, not feminine, following ICZN Article 30, and explicitly clarified in ICZN Opinion 2427.

Type species: Braunsiella heymonsi Escherich, 1905, by original designation.

Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 2427.

Synonymy

• Braunsiella Escherich, 1905: 67 (preoccupied, nec Braunsiella Raffray, 1901 (Coleoptera))
• Braunsina Escherich, 1905: 145 (preoccupied, nec Braunsina Buckmann, 1902)
• Hemilepisma Paclt, 1967: 34 (nom. nov.)

References

Primary references

• Escherich, K. 1905. Das System der Lepismatiden. Zoologica 43: 1–164. BHL. Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2018. Opinion 2427 (Case 3704) – Lepisma Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta, Zygentoma, Lepismatidae): Direction 71 (1957) reversed. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75(1): 290–294. Online. Reference page. 
• Paclt, J. 1967. Thysanura, Fam. Lepidotrichidae, Maindroniidae, Lepismatidae. Genera Insectorum 218: 1–86. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Irish, J. 2018. Contribution to the knowledge of southern African Lepismatidae (Thysanura, Insecta). Namibian Journal of Environment 2: 22–127. Online (with PDF available). Reference page.