Bed-jacket vs Four-Lined Silverfish

Alectryon tomentosus compared with Ctenolepisma lineata

Key Differences

• Bed-jacket is Least Concern while Four-Lined Silverfish is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bed-jacket	Four-Lined Silverfish
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Insecta (Insects)
Order	Sapindales (Sapindales)	Zygentoma (Zygentoma)
Family	Sapindaceae	Lepismatidae
Genus	Alectryon	Ctenolepisma
Species	Alectryon tomentosus	Ctenolepisma lineata

Conservation Status

Bed-jacket

LC — Least Concern

Four-Lined Silverfish

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bed-jacket	Four-Lined Silverfish
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bed-jacket

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Four-Lined Silverfish

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and United States.

Bed-jacket

The Bed-jacket (Alectryon tomentosus) is a species in the genus Alectryon. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.