Petrobius is a genus of jumping bristletails in the family Machilidae. Many of these ancestral insects are restricted to rocky shorelines especially of northern Europe and America.

Species

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:

  1. Petrobius adriaticus Verhoeff, 1910
  2. Petrobius artemisiae Mendes, 1980
  3. Petrobius brevistylis Carpenter, 1913
  4. Petrobius canadensis Paclt, 1969
  5. Petrobius crimeus Kaplin, 1983
  6. Petrobius imbricatus Koch & Berendt, 1854
  7. Petrobius lohmanderi Agrell, 1944
  8. Petrobius maritimus (Leach, 1809)
  9. Petrobius montanus Kaplin, 2021
  10. Petrobius ponticus Wygodzinsky, 1959

External links

  • Media related to Petrobius at Wikimedia Commons