NOMEN: Microcoryphia Verhoeff 1904 (22.IV): 109 [K.W. Verhoeff. Über vergleichende Morphologie des Kopfes niederer Insecten mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Dermaptera und Thysanuren nebst biologisch-physiologischen Beiträgen. – Abh.der Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol.Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, 1904, Bd.84, Nr.1: 1-144, pls.I-VIII]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Verhoeff 1904): Machilis
JUNIOR
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Archaeognatha Borner 1904
(3.V)
= Trinemura
Crampton 1916
= Protothysanura Crampton 1924
(non Smith 1897)
= Archeognathata Boudreaux 1979
= Monocondylia
Kukalova-Peck 1985
(non Haeckel 1866)
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Machilis/fg
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Machilis (sensu Latreille 1802), Machilidae, Machilodea, Machiloidea, Machilida
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Microcoryphia:
| 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.