Nicoletiidae
Temporal range:
Atelura formicaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Zygentoma
Family: Nicoletiidae
Escherich, 1905
Subfamilies include[1]

Atelurinae
Coletiniinae
Cubacubaninae
Nicoletiinae
Subnicoletiinae

Nicoletiidae is a family of primitive insects belonging to the order Zygentoma. These insects live primarily underground, under detritus, or in caves. A few species are recorded as commensals inside nests of social insects, such as the species Allotrichotriura saevissima which lives inside fire ant nests.[1] Nicoletiidae don't have eyes as other existing species and they lack pigment. They have medium size, with extended antennae and terminal filaments.[2] Coletinia, a genus of this family,  has many characters including a body length that ranges between 10 and 15mm. They may have yellowish pigmentation but most of them are transparent.[3] They have bilayered and very large acrosome, a short nucleus including chromatin being really condensed with tubular invaginations and sperm length and head size classified as short. [4]

Selected genera

Extinct genera

  • †Archeatelura Mendes 1997 Dominican amber, Miocene
  • †Paleograssiella Mendes and Poinar 2013 Mexican amber, Miocene

References

  1. 1 2 Mendes, Luis F.; Fox, Eduardo G. P.; Solis, Daniel R.; Bueno, Odair C. (2009). "New Nicoletiidae (Zygentoma: Insecta) from Brazil living in fire-ant (Hymenoptera: Insecta) nests". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 49 (34): 467–475. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492009003400001. hdl:11449/28489. ISSN 1807-0205.
  2. ↑ Smith, Graeme B.; McRae, Jane (2016). "Further short range endemic troglobitic silverfish (Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae; Subnicoletiinae and Coletiniinae) from north-western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 31 (1): 41. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.31(1).2016.041-055. ISSN 0312-3162.
  3. ↑ Molero, Rafael; Bach, Carmen; Sendra, Alberto; Montagud, Sergio; Barranco, Pablo; Gaju, Miguel (2013-02-15). "Revision of the genus Coletinia (Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) in the Iberian Peninsula, with descriptions of nine new species". Zootaxa. 3615 (1): 1–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3615.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  4. ↑ Dallai, R; Carapelli, A; Nardi, F; Fanciulli, P. P; Lupetti, P; Afzelius, B. A; Frati, F (2004-08-01). "Sperm structure and spermiogenesis in Coletinia sp. (Nicoletiidae, Zygentoma, Insecta) with a comparative analysis of sperm structure in Zygentoma". Tissue and Cell. 36 (4): 233–244. doi:10.1016/j.tice.2004.03.002. ISSN 0040-8166.


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