BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
ENTOGNATHA
(springtails, proturans and diplurans)
PROTURA
(proturans)
Protura
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

PROTURA (proturans)

Further Information

Notes (MWS) A small group of primitive wingless insects with metamorphosis mainly of increasing number of segments. The tiny insects are found in soil, peat, leaf litter and under stones, bark etc. Imms, A.D., 1957

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. & Sankey, J., 1961 Land Invertebrates, a guide to British worms, molluscs and arthropods, excluding insects

PROTURA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

References

Imms, A.D., 1957 General Textbook of Entomology
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