Lepisma

Lepisma saccharinum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zygentoma
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Ordo: Zygentoma

Familia: Lepismatidae
Subfamilia: Lepismatinae
Genus: Lepisma
Species: L. adygei – L. baeticum – L. chlorosoma – L. saccharinum – L. umbra – L. xylophila

Name

Lepisma Linnaeus, 1758: 608

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

Type species: Lepisma saccharinum Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Latreille, 1810: 423.

Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 104, amended by Direction 63 and Opinion 2427.

Synonyms

• Forbicina Geoffroy, 1762: 611
  • Type species: Lepisma saccharinum Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Kerzhner, 1991: 112.
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 1754.
• Lepisina Radermacher, 1779: 104 (incorrect subsequent spelling for Lepisma Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Direction 63.

References

Primary references

• Geoffroy, E.L. 1762. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. Tome second. Durand, Paris, 690 pp. 22 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• ICZN 1928. Opinion 104. 57 Generic Names Placed in the Official List. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(5): 25–28. BHL Reference page. 
• ICZN 1957. Direction 63. Completion and in certain cases correction of entries relating to the names of genera belonging to the Class Insecta made in the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936. Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1E(3): 21–60. BHL Reference page. 
• ICZN 1994. Opinion 1754. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouve aux environs de Paris (Geoffroy, 1762): some generic names conserved (Crustacea, Insecta). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 51(1): 58–70. BHL. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Kerzhner, I.M. 1991. Case 2292. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris (Geoffroy, 1762): proposed conservation of some generic names (Crustacea and Insecta). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 48(2): 107–133. BHL.
• Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considérations générales sur l'ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des crustacés, des arachnides, et des insectes : avec un tableau méthodique de leurs genres, disposés en familles. Paris: Schoell, 444 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL p. 608 BHL Reference page. 
• Radermacher, J.C.M. 1779. Register der geslagten van de drie ryken der natuur, naar den twaalfden Druk. Van het Systema Natura van Carolus Linnaeus tot No. 1228. van de Vegetabilia: vervolgens naar den Herbarius Ambonensis. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap der Kunsten en Wetenschappen 1: 87–109. BHL.

Additional references

• Kaplin, V.G. 2016. [New species of the bristletail families Ateluridae and Lepismatidae (Zygentoma) from Abkhazia and Adygea]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 95(8): 931–944. (in Russian). [English translation: Entomological Review 96(7): 885–898. DOI: 10.1134/S0013873816070101 .]
• Mendes, L.F. 1988. Revisão do género Lepisma Lin., 1758 s. lat. (Zygentoma, Lepismatidae). Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, suplemento 2: 1–236. [not seen]
• Molero-Baltanás, R., Gaju-Ricart, M., Bach de Roca, C. & Mendes, L.F. 1994. Lepisma baetica sp. n. from Spain (Apterygota, Zygentoma, Lepismatidae). Acta Zoologica Fennica 195: 104–106. Reference page. 
• Smith, G. 2015. Australian Lepismatinae (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae). General and Applied Entomology 43: 25–36. Abstract. PDF.

Vernacular names

• dansk: Sølvfisk
• Deutsch: Silberfischchen
• English: Silverfish
• español: Pececito de plata
• magyar: Ezüstös pikkelyke
• italiano: Pesciolino d'argento
• 日本語: セイヨウシミ属
• Nederlands: Zilvervisjes

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