Kingdom Animalia Rank Family Subclass Apterygota | Phylum Arthropoda Order Thysanura | |
Genus Maindronia
Bouvier, 1897 Similar Thysanura, Nicoletiidae, Atelurinae, Apterygota, Meinertellidae | ||
Maindroniidae is a very small family of basal insects belonging to the order Thysanura. It contains just a single genus, Maindronia, and a handful of species.
These distinctive insects are strictly coastal, being found along the arid coastline of Peru and Chile among seaweed.
References
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