Swalepisma

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: Ctenolepismatinae
Genus: Swalepisma
Species: S. mirabilis

Name

Swalepisma Irish in Irish & Mendes, 1988

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

Type species: Swalepisma mirabilis Irish, 1988, by original designation.

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

References

Primary references

• 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. 
• Irish, J. & Mendes, L.F. 1988. New genera and species of ultrapsammophilous Namib Desert Lepismatidae (Thysanura). Madoqua 15(4): 275–284. hdl: 10520/AJA10115498_411 . Reference page.