Ctenolepisma
Ctenolepisma is a genus of primitive insects closely related to the silverfish and firebrat but less reliant on human habitation, some species being found both indoors and outdoors and some found exclusively outdoors. The genus is distributed nearly worldwide in warm regions. Australia lacks native Ctenolepisma, but is home to introduced species.Diversity
There are about 100 species in the genus.
Species include:
- Ctenolepisma abyssinica Mendes, 1982
- Ctenolepisma africanella Wygodzinsky, 1955
- Ctenolepisma albida Escherich, 1905
- Ctenolepisma algharbica Mendes, 1978
- Ctenolepisma almeriensis Molero-Baltanás, Gaju-Ricart & Bach de Roca, 2005
- Ctenolepisma alticola Silvestri, 1935
- Ctenolepisma angustiella Silvestri, 1949
- Ctenolepisma armeniaca Molero-Baltanás, Gaju-Ricart, Bach de Roca & Mendes, 2010
- Ctenolepisma barchanicum Kaplin, 1985
- Ctenolepisma basilewskyi Wygodzinsky, 1965
- Ctenolepisma boettgeriana Paclt, 1961
- Ctenolepisma burmanica
- Ctenolepisma cabindae Mendes, 2002d
- Ctenolepisma calva
- Ctenolepisma conductrix Silvestri, 1918
- Ctenolepisma confalonieri Silvestri, 1932
- Ctenolepisma decellei Mendes, 1982
- Ctenolepisma desaegeri Mendes, 1982
- Ctenolepisma dewittei Mendes, 1982
- Ctenolepisma dubitalis Wygodzinsky, 1959
- Ctenolepisma dzhungaricum Kaplin, 1982
- Ctenolepisma electrans Mendes, 1998b
- Ctenolepisma fasciata doubtful
- Ctenolepisma feae Silvestri, 1908
- Ctenolepisma gabuensis Mendes, 1985
- Ctenolepisma guadianica Mendes, 1992
- Ctenolepisma guanche Mendes, 1993
- Ctenolepisma guineensis Mendes, 1985
- Ctenolepisma gunini Kaplin, 1989
- Ctenolepisma halophila Kaplin, 1981
- Ctenolepisma howa Escherich in Voeltzkow, 1910
- Ctenolepisma hummelincki Wygodzinsky, 1959
- Ctenolepisma immanis Mendes, 2004
- Ctenolepisma incita Silvestri, 1918
- Ctenolepisma insulicola Mendes, 1984
- Ctenolepisma iranicum Molero, Kahrarian & Gaju, 2016
- Ctenolepisma kaszabi Wygodzinsky, 1970a
- Ctenolepisma kermanshanum Molero, Kahrarian & Gaju, 2016
- Ctenolepisma kervillei Silvestri, 1911
- Ctenolepisma kuhitangicum Kaplin, 1993
- Ctenolepisma latisternata Mendes, 1993
- Ctenolepisma lindbergi Wygodzinsky, 1955
- Ctenolepisma lineata - four-lined silverfish ; the type species of the genus Ctenolepisma
- Ctenolepisma longicaudata Escherich, 1905 - grey silverfish
- Ctenolepisma madagascariensis Escherich in Voeltzkow, 1910
- Ctenolepisma maroccana Mendes, 1980
- Ctenolepisma michaelseni Escherich, 1905
- Ctenolepisma nicoletii - four-lined silverfish
- Ctenolepisma nigerica Mendes, 1982
- Ctenolepisma nigra
- Ctenolepisma petiti doubtful
- Ctenolepisma picturata Wygodzinsky, 1955
- Ctenolepisma pinicola Uchida, 1964
- Ctenolepisma pretoriana Wygodzinsky, 1955
- Ctenolepisma przewalskyi Kaplin, 1982
- Ctenolepisma rodriguezi Mendes et al., 1992
- Ctenolepisma roszkowskii Stach, 1935
- Ctenolepisma rothschildi Silvestri, 1907
- Ctenolepisma sabirovae Kaplin, 1980
- Ctenolepisma sagartianum Molero, Kahrarian & Gaju, 2016
- Ctenolepisma sanctaehelenae Wygodzinsky, 1970b
- Ctenolepisma sergii Kaplin, 1982
- Ctenolepisma serranoi Mendes, 1985
- Ctenolepisma somaliensis Mendes, 1988
- Ctenolepisma submagna Silvestri, 1908
- Ctenolepisma sudanica Mendes, 1982
- Ctenolepisma tanzanica Mendes, 1982
- Ctenolepisma targioniana Silvestri, 1908
- Ctenolepisma targionii
- Ctenolepisma tavaresi Navás, 1906 doubtful
- Ctenolepisma tenebrica Silvestri, 1949
- Ctenolepisma terebrans Silvestri, 1908
- *Ctenolepisma terebrans pluriseta Silvestri, 1908
- *Ctenolepisma terebrans terebrans Silvestri, 1908
- Ctenolepisma turcomanicum Kaplin, 1993
- Ctenolepisma unipectinata Mendes, 1982
- Ctenolepisma unistila Silvestri, 1908
- Ctenolepisma vanharteni Mendes, 2004
- Ctenolepisma versluysi Escherich, 1905
- Ctenolepisma vieirai Mendes, 1981
- Ctenolepisma villosa
- Ctenolepisma wahrmani Wygodzinsky, 1952
- Ctenolepisma weberi Escherich, 1905
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