Entomologists will be glad to learn that he is shortly going to press with a volume on the Poduras, which, in distinction from the Lepismas, to which he restricts the term Thysanura, he calls Collembola, in allusion to the sucker-like tubercle situated on the under side of the body, which no other insects are known to possess. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Our first stop is a mummy covered with silverfish Thysanura. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Among the many arthropods we willingly share our home with are the so-called silverfish of the order Thysanura. From Wordnik.com. [A primitive wingless insect from the bedroom] Reference
Cinema: see Thysanura, of which this forms a group including the bristle-tails, and for which it has been used as an equivalent. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Aptera: those that have no wings: an ordinal term formerly employed for fleas, lice and other wingless forms now distributed in other orders: later used for the simplest or lowest insects, including the Thysanura and Collembola. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
There are 13 species of silverfish (Thysanura) in the. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
The next family of Thysanura is the Campodeæ, comprising the two genera. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
There are several Thysanura, which suggest the sand-fleas of our seashores, but are seldom noticed because of their small size. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the National Parks] Reference
The Abbe Bourlet, Templeton, Westwood, and Haliday have published important papers on the Thysanura; and Meinert, a Danish naturalist, and. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Neuroptera; the second group (Ptero-metasthenics, or Elytropters) comprising the Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Orthoptera; while the Thysanura compose the third group. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Nicolet, the naturalist who, previous to Lubbock, has given us the most correct and complete account of the Thysanura, regarded them as an order, equivalent to the. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
On the other hand Burmeister placed the Thysanura as a separate tribe between the Mallophaga (Bird Lice) and Orthoptera, and Gerstaecker placed them among the Orthoptera. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
The silverfish belongs to the basal insect order Thysanura, and the species is estimated to have existed for three hundred million yrs, originating in the Palaeozoic Era. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Bristle-tails (Thysanura) and Spring-tails (Collembola), in which wings are never developed, perceptible differences in the form and arrangement of the abdominal limbs can be traced through the successive stages, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
The clypeus and labrum, or upper lip, is, in all the Thysanura, carried far down on the under side of the head, the clypeus being almost obsolete in the Poduridæ, this being one of the most essential characters of that family. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Neuroptera and higher insects, and instead of this spring being an important differential character, separating the Thysanura from other insects, it binds them still closer, though still differing greatly in representing only a part of the ovipositor of the higher insects. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
After having studied the Thysanura enough to recognize the great difficulty of deciding as to their affinities and rank, the writer does not feel prepared to go so far as Dana and Lubbock, for reasons that will be suggested in the following brief account of the more general points in their structure, reserving for another occasion a final expression of his views as to their classification. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
And it is a remarkable fact, as we have previously noticed, that when it begins to differ from the Caddis fly embryo, it begins to assume the Poduran characters, and its development consequently in some degree retrogrades, just as in the lice previous to hatching, as we have shown in a previous chapter, so that I think we are warranted at present in regarding the Thysanura, and especially the family of Podarids as degraded neuropters. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Now such forms as these Thysanura, together with the mites and the singular Pauropus, we cannot avoid suspecting to have been among the earliest to appear upon the earth, and putting together the facts, first, of their low organization; secondly, of their comprehensive structure, resembling the larvæ of other insects; and thirdly, of their probable great antiquity, we naturally look to them as being related in form to what we may conceive to have been the ancestor of the class of insects. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Thysanura, but the other great orders of insects, have all derived their origin. ". From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Collembola and Thysanura, but the other great orders of insects, have all derived their origin. ". From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Thysanura to the Neuroptera. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Thysanura. From Wordnik.com. [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Thysanura, 11. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
Thysanura, 127, 154. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Handily, A. H., on Thysanura, 133. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Lubbock, Sir John, on Thysanura, 133; on the origin of insects, 159, 173. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
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