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title: "Cténolépisme à longue queue"
description: "Ctenolepisma longicaudatum — Insectes et araignées. Ctenolepisma longicaudatum, generally known as the gray silverfish, long-tailed silverfish or paper silverfish, is a species of Zygentoma in the family Lepismatidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/long-tailed-silverfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Cténolépisme à longue queue

> Ctenolepisma longicaudatum — Insectes et araignées. Ctenolepisma longicaudatum, generally known as the gray silverfish, long-tailed silverfish or paper silverfish, is a species of Zygentoma in the family Lepismatidae.

- Scientific name: *Ctenolepisma longicaudatum*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: `urban` (Villes et jardins)
- iNaturalist observations: 14252
- Wikidata: [Q141486955](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141486955)
- iNaturalist taxon: [546132](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/546132)

## Names

- en: Long-tailed Silverfish
- de: Papierfischchen
- es: Pececillo de plata gris
- fr: Cténolépisme à longue queue

## Countries with the most observations

US (1644), DE (1071), MX (353), CA (328), ES (314), DK (246), NL (200), IT (179), AR (173), FI (169), PT (162), EC (145)

## Summary

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.
In recent years, gray silverfish have increasingly become an issue in indoor environments in Europe, especially in newly built houses with a stable climate beneficial for the growth and reproduction of this species. As a food generalist with the ability to digest the cellulose…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenolepisma_longicaudatum

## Photo

![Cténolépisme à longue queue](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/long-tailed-silverfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Kranz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109156875

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/long-tailed-silverfish?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).