Morphological and molecular revision of the subfamily Heterolepismatinae (Zygentoma, Lepismatidae), with descriptions of two new genera from the Atacama Desert, Chile.

ABSTRACT: This work aims to update the systematics of silverfish of the subfamily Heterolepismatinae (Zygentoma, Lepismatidae) based on morphological and molecular data of new taxa from the Atacama Desert (Chile) with a comparison with specimens from Argentina, from where species originally described as belonging to the genus Heterolepisma Escherich, 1905 come. This comparison also includes COI gene sequences of Argentine specimens attributed to H. andinum (Silvestri, 1902), and of Australian Heterolepismatinae previously classified as Heterolepisma or Visma Smith et al., 2021. As a result, the genera Lapidisma gen. nov. and Cactisma gen. nov. are described from Chile, and new morphological characters diagnostic of H. andinum are provide

SUBMITTER: Molero-Baltanas R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12661332 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature