Rhyniella

Japanese: Rhyniella
Rhyniella

…However, as a result of the environmental destruction that is progressing on a global scale, we do not want to end up in a situation where the only insects we notice are flies and cockroaches. [Shoichi Sakagami]
[Insect fossils]
The oldest insect fossil is a tiny collembolan fossil called Rhyniella , discovered in a Middle Devonian stratum in Rhynie, Scotland, and is said to have no fundamental differences from modern collembolans. However, current knowledge indicates that collembolans have a body plan quite different from that of ordinary insects, and it is difficult to consider them the ancestors of winged insects. Rather, it is thought that winged insects arose from wingless insects similar to worms and silverfish, but the fossils of such insects have not yet been found.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Rhyniella" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし地球規模で進行している環境破壊の結果,目につく虫といえばハエとゴキブリだけという状態は起こしたくないものである。【坂上 昭一】
【昆虫化石】
 最古の昆虫化石は,スコットランドのライニーRhynieのデボン紀中期の地層から発見されたリニエラRhyniellaという微小なトビムシ化石で,現生トビムシと比べても基本的な違いはないとされている。しかし現在の知見では,トビムシ類は一般の昆虫とかなり異なった体制をもち,有翅昆虫の先祖とは考えがたく,むしろイシノミやシミに近い無翅昆虫より有翅昆虫が生じたと考えられているが,その化石はまだ発見されていない。…

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