Dicyrtomidae is a family of

Collembola Springtails (class Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects. Although the three lineages are sometimes grouped together in a class called Entognatha because they have internal m ...

in the order

Symphypleona The order Symphypleona, also known as the globular springtails, is one of the three main groups of springtails (Collembola), tiny hexapods related to insects. When the springtails were still believed to be an order of insects, the Symphypleona w ...

, and it is the only family of the superfamily Dicyrtomoidea. It includes more than 200 species in eight genera.

Genera

According to ''Checklist of the Collembola of the World'':Bellinger, Christiansen & Janssens, 1996-2019 : ''Checklist of the Collembola of the World.'
Checklist of the Collembola of the World
* Dicyrtominae Börner, 1906 ** '' Calvatomina'' Yosii, 1966 ** '' Dicyrtoma'' Bourlet, 1842 ** '' Dicyrtomina'' Börner, 1903 ** '' Gibberathrix'' Uchida, 1952 ** '' Jordanathrix'' Bretfeld & Arbea, 1999 * Ptenothricinae Richards, 1968 ** '' Bothriovulsus'' Richards, 1968 ** '' Papirioides'' Folsom, 1924 ** ''

Ptenothrix ''Ptenothrix'' is a genus of globular springtails in the family Dicyrtomidae. There are about 92 described species in ''Ptenothrix'' worldwide. The genus is defined by a cluster of traits, most pertaining to chaetotaxy. These traits are as ...

'' Börner, 1906

References

* Börner, 1906 : ''Das System der Collembolen nebst Beschreibung neuer Collembolen des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums.'' Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, ,
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. * 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. (HTML abstract)

External links

* Symphypleona Arthropod families {{Springtail-stub