Thysanura

The term Zottenschwänze ( Thysanura ) were previously combined primary wingless forms of insects to a separate order of insects. These are divided today because recent anatomical findings in the two groups Felsenspringer ( Archaeognatha ) and fishes ( Zygentoma ), where the little fish form the basis of the education of their mandibles together with the flying insects which Dicondylia.

In the English literature, however, the term Thysanura, for the order of fishes ( Zygentoma ) will mostly continue to be used, the retired, lineage older historical order bears the name Archaeognatha.

Fossil representatives of the order Thysanura have been found in amber and the oldest in Baltic amber (older than 40 million years).

Swell

• Werner Jacobs, Maximilian Renner: Biology and ecology of insects. 2nd edition. Gustav Renner Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-437-20352-5.

• Alternative taxon