NOMEN: Zygentoma Börner 1904 [C. Börner. Zur Systematic der Hexapoden. – Zool. Anz., 1904, 27: 511-533]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Börner 1904): Lepismidae
JUNIOR
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL
SYNONYM:
= Apterata Boudreaux 1979
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Lepisma/fg
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Lepisma (sensu Latreille 1802), Lepismatida, Lepismatidae, Lepismatoidea, Lepisme, Lepismidae, Lepismoidea
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Zygentoma:
| classification by Kluge 2000: |
Classification by Hennig 1953: |
|
Amyocerata Triplura Microcoryphia Zygentoma Pterygota |
Amyocerata Microcoryphia Dicondylia Zygentoma Pterygota |
COMMENT. Some authors use for this taxon a wrong name Thysanura.