{"id":7493,"date":"2019-03-05T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2019-03-05T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:37:05","slug":"march-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7493","title":{"rendered":"March 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 March 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; As this cold weather continues, I am still reduced to photographing firebrats and similar indoor invertebrates in my apartment building.&nbsp; We have two species of firebrat in the building   &#8211; the common<em> Thermobia domestica<\/em> and the less common <em>Ctenolepisma longicaudata,  <\/em>and I&#8217;m not 100 percent certain which this one is.&nbsp; &nbsp;<em>T.domestica <\/em>usually has a well-defined brown mottled pattern (see February 19), while  <em>C. longicaudata<\/em> is usually fairly uniformly grey.&nbsp; To the unaided eye, this one looked grey, but the photograph shows it to have quite a lot of mottling.&nbsp; However, I think it has the long abdomen typical of  <em>longicaudata, <\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>rather than the stubby <em>domestica<\/em> abdomen, so I think it is<strong><em> Ctenolepisma longicaudata<\/em><\/strong><strong>.  <\/strong>I suppose there might be the possibiliy of hybridization, or of a different species, but that&#8217;s just idle speculation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; The ever-busy taxonomists have been hard at work on these animals.&nbsp; On this site I have been listing them in the Order Thysanura (three-pronged bristletails), but some authors are now calling the Order Zygentoma, and some seem   not to be certain as to what Class to put them in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"IMG_3053.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"878\" width=\"581.6\" height=\"425.5373333333334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_3053.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Ctenolepisma longicaudata <\/em>(Thy.: Lepismatidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 March 5 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; As this cold weather continues, I am still reduced to photographing firebrats and similar indoor invertebrates in my apartment building.&nbsp; We have two species of firebrat in the building &#8211; the common Thermobia domestica and the less common Ctenolepisma longicaudata, and I&#8217;m not 100 percent certain which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}