Biology:Maindroniidae
Maindroniidae is a small family of silverfish, basal insects belonging to the order Zygentoma. It contains a single genus, Maindronia, and a handful of species.
Four species of these insects are found in deserts: in Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Atacama Desert on the west coast of Chile. The distribution of these closely related species suggests that Maindronia is a Gondwanan relict group.[1] In 2020, a new species in this family, Maindronia bashagardensis, was discovered in Hormozgan province, Iran.[2] There are no known existing specimen or illustrations of Maindronia mascatensis, and Maindroniidae has been suggested being divided into two subfamilies:
Atacaminae, currently comprises two described species:[3]
- Atacamus neotropicalis Wygodzinsky, 1940 - Chile
- Peruatacamus atunpacha Irish, Zúñiga-Reinoso & Predel, 2025 - Perú
Maindroniinae, which includes three remaining species.[3]
- Maindronia bashagardensis Smith & Molero-Baltanás, 2020 – Iran
- Maindronia beieri Schremmer, 1964 – Sudan
- Maindronia mascatensis Bouvier, 1897 – Oman and UAE
In 2019, a phylogenetic study using the Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and the 18S genes showed that Maindronia neotropicalis, inhabiting the Chilean Atacama desert, is an assemblage of five genetic lineages that diverged from a common ancestor around 15 million years ago. All of these five lineages are likely well-separated species, and await formal description.[1][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Zúñiga-Reinoso, Alvaro; Predel, Reinhard (November 2019). "Past climatic changes and their effects on the phylogenetic pattern of the Gondwanan relict Maindronia (Insecta: Zygentoma) in the Chilean Atacama Desert". Global and Planetary Change 182. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103007. Bibcode: 2019GPC...18203007Z.
- ↑ Smith, Graeme B.; Molero-Baltanás, Rafael; Jaberhashemi, Seyed Aghil; Rafinejad, Javad (11 March 2020). "A new species of Maindronia Bouvier, 1897 from Iran (Zygentoma: Maindroniidae)". Records of the Australian Museum 72 (1): 9–21. doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1760. https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/documents/1760_complete.2ebbb1c.pdf?_gl=1*1sll17z*_ga*MzQ0MDA1MTU0LjE2NzY2Mzc0NTI.*_ga_PZ3L84LQDF*MTY3NjYzNzQ1MS4xLjEuMTY3NjYzNzQ3Ni4zNS4wLjA.&_ga=2.190881130.1759734034.1676637452-344005154.1676637452.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Irish, John; Zúñiga-Reinoso, Álvaro; Cieszynski, Hanna; Pohl, Hans; Predel, Reinhard (2025). "New genera of Neotropical Maindroniidae, with a redescription of Maindronia neotropicalis (Insecta, Zygentoma)". Zoologischer Anzeiger 319: 349–377. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2025.10.010. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044523125001263.
- ↑ "Life at the limit: creatures similar to silverfish discovered in Earth's driest desert" (Press release). University of Cologne. 24 March 2020.
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- Systematics of family
- Hogue, Charles Leonard (1993). "Silverfish". Latin American Insects and Entomology. University of California Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-520-07849-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=o0c78yak-b4C&pg=PA150.
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