Bionychiurus tamilensis is a species of the family Onychiuridae, a group of springtails.[1] Bionychiurus tamilensis has a dorsal pseudocellus (pso) formula as 32/133/33343 and a ventral pso formula as 11/011/11121. It was recorded from the Nilgiri Hills, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve of Western Ghats, India. The status as new species of the genus Bionychiurus was confirmed molecular studies.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Collembola |
| Order: | Poduromorpha |
| Family: | Onychiuridae |
| Genus: | Bionychiurus |
| Species: | B. tamilensis
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| Bionychiurus tamilensis Thunnisa et al., 2021
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References
edit- ^ Lubbock, John (1870). "XII. Notes on the Thysanura.-Part IV". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 27 (2): 277–297. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1870.tb00214.x.
- ^ Thunnisa, Abu Muhsina; Sumithra, Nallathambi; Narmatha, Senthilkumar; Jyothi, Manikkiri; Sanil, Ravindranathanpillai (2021-02-02). "First record of genus Bionychiurus Pomorski 1996 (Collembola: Onychiuridae) from India". doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-156881/v1. S2CID 234033782.
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