Thysanura

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Thysanura

the insect order containing the bristletails, primarily wingless insects inhabiting soil and leaf-litter.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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These were thysanurans, an embiomorpha, nabid and pyrrhocorid bugs, carabid beetles, lepidopteran larvae, ichneumonid wasps, a lithobiid centipede, some Messor ants and some conspecific females.
The prey of a lithophilous crab spider Xysticus loeffleri (Araneae, Thomisidae)

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