Lepisma saccharinum

Familia: Lepismatidae
Subfamilia: Lepismatinae
Genus: Lepisma
Species: Lepisma saccharinum

Lepisma saccharinum Linnaeus, 1758 (NOTE: Gender of Lepisma is neuter, not feminine, following ICZN Article 30, and explicitly clarified in ICZN Opinion 2427)

Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Direction 64, amended by Opinion 2427.

• Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus, 1758: 608 (original spelling)
• Forbicina plana Geoffroy, 1762: 613
• Lepisma vulgaris Scopoli, 1763: 378
• Lepisma semicylindrica De Geer, 1778: 14
• Machilis cylindrica Lacordaire, 1835
• Lepisma quercetorum Wygodzinsky, 1945

• De Geer, C. 1778. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes. Tome septième. Ouvrage posthume. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm. xii + 950 pp., 49 pls. BHL. Gallica. Google books Reference page. 
• Geoffroy, E.L. 1762. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. Tome second. Durand, Paris, 690 pp. 22 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• ICZN 1957. Direction 64. Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (a) of the specific names of nineteen species belonging to the Class Insecta, each of which is the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936 and (b) of the specific names of three species belonging to the same Class which are currently treated as senior subjective synonyms of the names of such species. Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1E(4): 61–74. BHL. Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2018. Opinion 2427 (Case 3704) – Lepisma Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta, Zygentoma, Lepismatidae): Direction 71 (1957) reversed. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75(1): 290–294. Online. Reference page. 
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL p. 608 BHL Reference page. 
• Scopoli, J.A. 1763. Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates: methodo Linnaeana. pp. 1–35, 1–420. Trattner, Vindobonae [Vienna]. BHL Reference page. 

• Macfarlane, R.P., Maddison, P.A., Andrew, I.G., Berry, J.A., Johns, P.M., Hoare, R.J.B., Larivière, M.-C., Greenslade, P., Henderson, R.C., Smithers, C.N., Palma, R.L., Ward, J.B., Pilgrim, R.L.C., Towns, D.R., McLellan, I., Teulon, D.A.J., Hitchings, T.R., Eastop, V.F., Martin, N.A., Fletcher, M.J., Stufkens, M.A.W., Dale, P.J., Burckhardt, D., Buckley, T.R. & Trewick, S.A. 2010. Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Hexapoda: Protura, springtails, Diplura, and insects. Pp. 233–467 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 
• Wise, K.A.J. 1977. A synonymic checklist of the Hexapoda of the New Zealand sub-region: the smaller orders. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum (11) Reference page. 
• Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide: South Australian branch of the British Science Guild (incorporated with the British Association for the Advancement of Science). Reference page. 

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