Japygoidea

Japygoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Entognatha
Order:	Diplura
Suborder:	Dicellurata Cook, 1896
Superfamily:	Japygoidea Lubbock, 1873

Dicellurata is a suborder of two-pronged bristletails in the order Diplura. There are at least 4 families and more than 170 described species in Dicellurata. ^{[1] [2]} Japygoidea is the only superfamily in the suborder.

Families

These four families belong to the suborder Dicellurata:

• Dinjapygidae Womersley, 1939
• Heterojapygidae
• Japygidae Lubbock, 1873 (forcepstails)
• Parajapygidae Womersley, 1939

• 
  Japygidae
• 
  Characteristic cerci of Japygoidea

References

1. "Dicellurata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
2. "Dicellurata Suborder Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-04-13.

Further reading

• Allen, Robert T. (2002). "A synopsis of the Diplura of North America: Keys to higher taxa, systematics, distributions and descriptions of new taxa (Arthropoda: Insecta)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 128 (4): 403–466. ISSN   0002-8320. JSTOR   25078790.