Species Pedetontus saltator - Pedetontus (s.str.) saltator

Jumping Bristletail - Pedetontus saltator

Amherst Microcoryphian - Pedetontus saltator

Amherst Microcoryphian II: Return of Pedetontus - Pedetontus saltator

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Microcoryphia (Bristletails)

Family Machilidae (Jumping Bristletails)

Subfamily Petrobiinae

Genus Pedetontus

Species saltator (Pedetontus (s.str.) saltator)

Explanation of Names

Pedetontus saltator Wygodzinsky & Schmidt 1980(1)

saltator 'hopper' (allusion to the jumping habit)

Range

ne.US (MA‒NJ‒PA)(2)

Habitat

crevices in limestone cliffs, on boulders, leaf litter between boulders, in old stone walls (from close to the surface to at least 2 feet below the top of the stone wall); at night, specimens were found on the surface(1)

Life Cycle

May be parthenogenetic

Remarks

member of the nominate subgenus (5 spp. in our area, all but one in CA-OR)(2)

Works Cited

1.	Survey of the Microcoryphia of the northeastern United States and adjacent provinces of Canada

2.	Bowser M.L. (2012) Bristletails of North America

Contributed by John F. Carr on 19 January, 2010 - 6:05pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 26 October, 2024 - 1:11pm

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