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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Bristletails (Microcoryphia) » Jumping Bristletails (Machilidae) » Machilinae » Trigoniophthalmus » Trigoniophthalmus alternatus
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Bristletail - Trigoniophthalmus alternatus
Copyright © 2009 Ashley Bradford

Bristletail - Trigoniophthalmus alternatus
Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
July 1, 2009
Is it Trigoniophthalmus alternatus? The coloration looks a lot like this one in the Guide:



It was on the Rubbermaid shed-thingy on my patio tonight.
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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 2 July, 2009 - 1:34am
Last updated 19 January, 2010 - 6:02pm

Moved
Moved from Bristletails.
… Ashley Bradford, 19 January, 2010 - 6:02pm login or register to post comments

Trigoniophthalmus alternatus
This does look like Trigoniophthalmus alternatus (Silvestri 1904). The scales on the antennal flagellum place it in the Machilinae. As far as I know, T. alternatus is the only species in the subfamily recorded from your area. See Wygodzinsky and Schmidt (1980).

Reference
Wygodzinsky, P. and K. Schmidt. 1980. Survey of the Microcoryphia (Insecta) of the northeastern United States and adjacent provinces of Canada. American Museum Novitates 2701:1-17. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/5387.
… Matthew Bowser, 19 January, 2010 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Great -
Thank you very much!
… Ashley Bradford, 19 January, 2010 - 6:02pm login or register to post comments

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