Lepidotrichidae is a family of basal

insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three ...

s belonging to the order

Zygentoma Zygentoma are an order in the class Insecta, and consist of about 550 known species. The Zygentoma include the so-called silverfish or fishmoths, and the firebrats. A conspicuous feature of the order are the three long caudal filaments. The t ...

( silverfish and allies) The family contains the extinct '' Lepidotrix'', known from specimens preserved in

Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...

aged European amber. The extant genus '' Tricholepidion'', which contains a single species, '' Tricholepidion gertschi'' from western North America, has also been typically considered a member of the family. However, some more recent research has suggested that the two genera are not particularly closely related, and ''Tricholepidion'' should instead be assigned to its own family Tricholepidiidae.

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Lepidotrichidae.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Insect families Taxa named by Filippo Silvestri {{Thysanura-stub