Machilis palaemon von Olfers 1907 (jumping bristletail)

Insecta - Archaeognatha - Machilidae

Full reference: E. W. M. von Olfers. 1907. Die "Ur-Insecten" (Thysanura und Collembola im Bernstein). Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 48:1-40

Belongs to Machilis according to F. Silvestri 1912

See also von Olfers 1907

Sister taxa: Machilis acuminata, Machilis albomaculata, Machilis anableps, Machilis anguea, Machilis boops, Machilis caestifera, Machilis capito, Machilis cincta, Machilis corusca, Machilis diastatica, Machilis electa, Machilis exilis, Machilis exophthalmos, Machilis fasciola, Machilis longipalpis, Machilis macrura, Machilis microphthalmos, Machilis polypoda, Machilis saliens, Machilis shiobarensis, Machilis signata, Machilis succini, Machilis zebrina, Petrobius confinis, Petrobius seticornis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection

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