Dicyrtomidae

Dicyrtomidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Collembola
Order:	Symphypleona
Superfamily:	Dicyrtomoidea
Family:	Dicyrtomidae

Dicyrtomina minuta caught in (Sarracenia)

Dicyrtomidae is a family of Collembola, the only family of the superfamily Dicyrtomoidea. It has more than 200 species in 8 genera.

Genera[]

According to Checklist of the Collembola of the World:^[1]

• Dicyrtominae Börner, 1906
  • Yosii, 1966
  • Dicyrtoma Bourlet, 1842
  • Dicyrtomina Börner, 1903
  • Uchida, 1952
  • Bretfeld & Arbea, 1999
• Richards, 1968
  • Richards, 1968
  • Folsom, 1924
  • Ptenothrix Börner, 1906

References[]

• Börner, 1906 : Das System der Collembolen nebst Beschreibung neuer Collembolen des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, vol. 23, p. 147-188 (texte intégral).
• Gao, Yan; Bu, Yun & Luan, Yun-Xia (2008): Phylogenetic Relationships of Basal Hexapods Reconstructed from Nearly Complete 18S and 28S rRNA Gene Sequences. Zool. Sci. 25(11): 1139-1145. doi:10.2108/zsj.25.1139 PMID 19267625 (HTML abstract)