Ctenolepisma longicaudatum
Silverfish at Michelago, NSW
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| Ctenolepisma longicaudatum | 29 Jan 2023 | GBS | ||
| Ctenolepisma longicaudatum | 29 Jan 2023 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Lepismatidae (family) | 2 Jan 2019 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Lepismatidae (family) | 1 Jan 2019 | RogerF |
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3 comments
RogerF
wrote:
2 Jan 2019
This does not look like L. saccharina, which is a cosmpolitan household pest, but could be one of the several native lepismids that are found under bark and in termite nests. The expert was John Irish but he has moved to Namibia.
GBS
wrote:
3 Dec 2022
I believe this species is the cosmopolitan Ctenolepisma longicaudatum. It is definitely not Lepisma saccharinum, as the latter has much shorter tail filaments. The native Lepismatid species (subfamily Heterolepismatinae) so far known around Canberra don't have as many bristles on the head and the bristles are smooth not barbed.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.156287-35.779527
- Altitude 796.6m
- Maps Illilanga & Baroona
- Places Michelago, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 26 Dec 2018 06:13 AM Recorded on
- Illilanga Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
- Illilanga Completed Illilanga NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Silverfish (Zygentoma) Primitive insects Insects Ctenolepisma longicaudatum
Species information
- Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Scientific name
- Silverfish Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 796.63m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Lepisma saccharinum
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