Rank Family Subclass Apterygota | Order Thysanura | |
Genus MaindroniaBouvier, 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
Maindroniidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA