Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Apterygota > Order Archaeognatha > Family Machilidae > Subfamily Petrobiinae

Petrobius Leach, 1809

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Halomachilis*	Verhoeff, 1912	generic synonym
*Petromachilis*	Rilley, 1915	generic synonym

Children

Petrobius adriaticus (Verhoeff, 1912)
Petrobius artemisiae Mendes, 1980
Petrobius brevistylis Carpenter, 1913
Petrobius crimeus Kaplin, 1983
Petrobius maritimus (Leach, 1809)

Literature

basis of record	Legakis, A. (2001). Insecta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 323-324
additional source	Cheng, L. (Ed.). (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp.