Author | Delaney, M.J. |
Year | 1954 |
Title | Thysanura and Diplura |
Series | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | All the then known Britsh species |
Source | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, I Part 2, 7pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London |
Illustrations | Line drawings accompany text |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | A dichotomous key to the species, but now rather old. Available for download from the Royal Entomological Society website. |
Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | P5 couplet 15/16 (*Petrobius*): the descriptions are the opposite way round to the illustrations. |
Examine | Stereo Microscope |
Specimen Preparation | In spirit |
Identification difficulty | Relatively straightforward, though some of the characters are hard to see |
Website url | www.royensoc.co.uk/publications/index.htm |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Current | APTERYGOTA | bristletails, silverfish and firebrats (primitively wingless insects) | Animalia |
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