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Definition of Protura
1. Noun. Minute wingless arthropods: telsontails.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Proturan, Telsontail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protura
Literary usage of Protura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1921)
"This important discovery of representatives of the order protura in this vicinity
has been reported to the Entomological Society of Washington in the ..."
2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"ORDER protura As this is the only order of the class ... That the protura are
widely distributed is evident from the fact that in addition to those found in ..."
3. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"8) for which he made a new order — protura. Berlese added two genera to this order,
... protura have actually little in common with insects; the peculiar ..."
4. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"protura.—In 1907 Prof. F. Silvestri* diagnosed an order of curious primitive
creatures, apterous and without eyes or antennae, the protura, which stands ..."
5. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"The recently discovered group of protura may be mentioned here. They lack antennas,
have the first leg directed forwards and tactile, twelve abdominal ..."
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