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Dermaptera Species File
Subfamily

Karschiellinae Verhoeff, 1902

Type

type genus of Karschiellinae Verhoeff, 1902

Nomenclature (24)

  • Karschiellinae Verhoeff, 1902: 183.

    type genus Karschiella Verhoeff, 1902

  • Karschielloidea Verhoeff, 1902
  • Karschiellinae Verhoeff, 1902 (classified as Pygidicranidae Verhoeff, 1902) in Kočárek, Horká, Bonczek & Kirstová, 2024: 991. Classification
  • Karschiellinae Verhoeff, 1902 (classified as Pygidicranidae Verhoeff, 1902) in Kamimura, 2025: 12.

Nomenclature references (19)

  • Verhoeff, K.W. (1902) Über Dermapteren. 1. Aufsatz. Versuch eines neuen, natürlichen Systems auf vergleichend-morphologischer Grundlage und über den Mikrothorax der Insecten. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 25, 181–209. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37981#page/195/
  • Burr, M. (1911) Dermaptera. In Genera Insectorum. Vol. 122, pp. 1–112. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105421/
  • Burr, M. (1915) On the male genital armature of the Dermaptera. Part I: Protodermaptera (except Psalidae). Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Oct.1915;Ser.2, 413–447.
  • Brues, C., Melander, A. & Carpenter, F. (1954) Classification of Insects. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparativ Zoology of Harvard College, 108, 112–119.
  • Hincks, W. (1957) The Earwigs of South Africa. South African Animal Life, 4(Chapter 2), 33–94.
  • Hincks, W.D. (1959) A systematic monograph of the Dermaptera of the world based on material in the British Museum (Natural History). 2. Pygidicranidae excluding Diplatyinae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 218 pp.
  • Popham, E. (1963) The geographical distribution of the Dermaptera. The Entomologist, 96, 131–144.
  • Popham, E. (1965) A key to dermapteran subfamilies. The Entomologist, 98, 126–136.
  • Brindle, A. (1969) Recoltes de Ph. Bruneau de Miré au Cameroun. Bulettin de l‘IFAN, Series A, 31(1), 58–72.
  • Brindle, A. (1970) The Hemimerina and Dermaptera from Angola. Publ. Cult. Co. Diam Angola, 34, 39–74.
  • Sakai, S. (1971) IV. Karschiellidae. Dermapterorum Catalogus Praeliminaris, 14 pp.
  • Brindle, A. (1973) The Dermaptera of Africa. Pt I. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, série in 8: Sciences Zoologiques, 205, 1–335.
  • Steinmann, H. (1973) A study for the higher taxa of the Pygidicranidae (Dermaptera). Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 26, 385–400.
  • Steinmann, H. (1975) Suprageneric classification of Dermaptera. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 21, 195–220.
  • Steinmann, H. (1986) Dermaptera: Catadermaptera I. Das Tierreich, 102, 345 pp.
  • Steinmann, H. (1989c) World Catalogue of Dermaptera. In Series Entomologica. Vol. 43, 1–934 pp.
  • Engel, M.S. & Haas, F. (2007) Family-Group names for Earwigs (Dermaptera). American Museum Novitates, 3567, 1–20.
  • Kočárek, P., Horká, I., Bonczek, V. & Kirstová, M. (2024) Phylogenetic placement of bizarre karschiellid earwigs. Insect Science, 31(3), 989–992. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.13244
  • Kamimura, Y. (2025) Re-examination of diagnostic traits for the higher classification of Dermaptera (Insecta) and a new classification system for Neodermaptera based on a revised dataset. Proceedings of the Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan, 56, 1–26. Available at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/paesj/56/0/56_1/_pdf/-char/en

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subfamily1023
Genus2002
Species120416
Subspecies2002