NOMEN: Prothysanura Schepotieff 1909 [Schepotieff A.. Studien über niedere Insecten. I. Protapteron indicum n.g. n.sp. Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. System., Geogr. und Biol. der Tiere, 1909, Bd.28, Hf.2: 121-138]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Schepotieff 1909):
Protura (= Acerentomon) + Rhabdura (=
Campodea) 
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Campodea/fg (incl. Acerentomon)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE:
MODERN STATUS: the oldest name of a non-accepted, polyphyletic taxon.
COMMENT. Originally, besides Protura and Rhabdura, the taxon Prothysanura included Protapteron indicum Schepotieff 1909 – an insect which was described as an intermidiate form between Protura and Rhabdura; for this species, a suborder Rhammatocera Borner 1910 was established. Rimskiy-Korsakov (Римский-Корсаков 1911) concluded that Protapteron indicum was a wrongly described representative of Protura.