NOMEN: Zygentoma Börner 1904 [C. Börner. Zur Systematic der Hexapoden. - Zool. Anz., 1904, 27: 511-533]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Börner
1904):
Lepismidae 
Lepisma
JUNIOR
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL
SYNONYM:
= Apterata Boudreaux 1979
TYPIFIED NAME(S): Lepisma/fg2 (sine Machilis; incl. Lepidotrix, Nicoletia) [f: Lepismenae Latreille 1802; g: Lepisma Linnaeus 1758, typus L. saccharina Linnaeus 1758 (design. Latreille 1810; ICZN Opinion 104, 1928 & Direction 64, 1957)]
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.