Lepisma
Lepisma (le*piz"mȧ) , noun
[New Latin, from Greek le`pisma peel, from lepi`s -i`dos, a scale.]
(Zoology) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture; it feeds on starch and eats sized paper and starched clothes. Called also shiner, silverfish, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.