Family PROJAPYGIDAE
Compiler and date details
W.W.K. Houston, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Introduction
The family, erected by Cook (1899), is founded on Projapyx stylifer Cook. Smith (1960) gave a distribution list of the then known world Projapygidae and Anajapygidae, together with a key to the families and genera. In Australia, two species are known; one from Queensland, and the other, an undescribed species, from Western Australia.
Australian members of this family are 2–3.5 mm in length; cerci are paired, short and multisegmented; the thorax has three pairs of spiracles, the abdomen seven pairs; and the antennae are long, moniliform and with trichobothria on segments 4–22.
General References
Cook, O.F. 1899. New Dicellura. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 222-229
Smith, L.M. 1960. The family Projapygidae and Anajapygidae (Diplura) in North America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 53: 575-583