Nesomachilis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeognatha
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 Subclassis: Monocondylia Ordo: Archaeognatha

Familia: Meinertellidae
Genus: Nesomachilis
Species (12): N. australica – N. blumi – N. howensis – N. maorica – N. novaecaledoniae – N. novaeguinae – N. novaezelandiae – N. papuana – N. queenslandica – N. sarasini – N. tamborina – N. watsoni

[sources: Mendes, Bach de Roca & Gaju-Ricart (1994: 141), Sturm (1999)]

Name

• Nesomachilis Tillyard, 1924
  • Authority for current status: original
    • Womersley (1938: 6): synonym of Machiloides Silvestri, 1904
    • Wygodzinsky (1948: 69): reinstated
  • Gender: [feminine, originally treated as masculine]
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Type species: Nesomachilis maorica Tillyard, 1924
    • Fixation: original designation [p. 241] [and monotypy]
  • ZooBank: 8B34FDCF-EC29-4BB1-8370-A53A36F26C95

References

• Mendes, L.F., Bach de Roca, C. & Gaju-Ricart, M. 1994. Descrição de uma nova espécie de Nesomachilis Tillyard: N. novaezelandiae sp. n. (Microcoryphia; Meinertellidae). Garcia de Orta - série de zoologia 20(1-2): 141–148. [in Portuguese with English abstract] Reference page. 
• Sturm, H. 1980: Redescription of Nesomachilis (Archaeognatha: Meinertellidae), with descriptions of new species from the Australian region. New Zealand journal of zoology 7(4): 533-550. Google books Reference page. 
• Sturm, H. 1999: Bristle-tails (Meinertellidae, Archaeognatha, Insecta) from Papua-New Guinea and Irian Jaya - description of a new genus and three new species. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 13(159): 1–12. [not seen]
• Sturm, H.; Smith, G.B. 1993: New bristle tails (Archaeognatha: Meinertellidae) from Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 32(3): 233–240. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1993.tb00580.x
• Tillyard, R.J. 1924. Primitive wingless insects. Part I: the silverfish, bristletails and their allies (order Thysanura). New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology 7(4): 232–242. Reference page. 
• Womersley, H. 1938: Studies in Australian Thysanura. No. 4. Machilidae (bristle-tails). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 62: 3–8. PDF
• Wygodzinsky, P. 1948: Redescription of Nesomachilis maoricus Tillyard, 1924, with notes on the family Machilidae (Thysanura). Dominion Museum records in entomology, 1: 69–78. BUGZ