Other primitive insects


Other primitive insects

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Discussion

17 Apr 2025
Thanks GBS

Meinertellidae (family)
GBS wrote:
17 Apr 2025
This is a jumping bristletail. It probably belongs to the family Meinertellidae but this ancient insect group has been very poorly studied in Australia.

Meinertellidae (family)
26 Jul 2021
Name corrected. The rules for editing names seem to have changed with Aaron's new taxonomy arrangements.

Meinertellidae (family)
KimPullen wrote:
25 Jul 2021
The correct spelling of the family name is Meinertellidae (my mistake), but I can't seem to be able to change it.

Meinertellidae (family)
WattaWanderer wrote:
19 Oct 2020
Thanks Kim - very interesting to learn! That makes sense re the difficulty in gauging rareity/population from incidental sightings alone. I will keep my eyes peeled when next in that area.

Meinertellidae (family)
812,314 sightings of 22,118 species from 13,860 members
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