New account on the thysanurans of the Azores (Insecta, Microcoryphia and Zygentoma) with description of a new species

Samples of thysanurans (orders Microcoryphia and Zygentoma) collected in th e Azores were studied. The known distributions in the archipelago of Parape trobius azoricus, Dilta saxicola, Lepisma saccharina and Ctenolepisma longi caudata are substantially enlarged. Machilinus cf. rupestris gallicus as we ll as the genus Machilinus and the family Meinertellidae are reported for t he first time in the Azores. Trigoniophthalmus borgesi sp.n. (Microcoryphia : Machilidae), is described from the laurisilva forest of the Terceira isla nd.