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    (c) Kaj Hoffman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Juanvi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Frederik Leck Fischer, all rights reserved

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    (c) Erin Powell, all rights reserved

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    (c) František Bednár, all rights reserved

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Long-tailed Silverfish

Ctenolepisma longicaudatum

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About

Ctenolepisma longicaudatum, generally known as the gray silverfish, long-tailed silverfish or paper silverfish, is a species of Zygentoma in the family Lepismatidae. It was described by the German entomologist Karl Leopold Escherich in 1905 based on specimens collected in South Africa, but is found worldwide as synanthrope in human housings.

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