genus
† Grammoderma Yin, Shih, Engel & Ren, 2024
Type
† Grammoderma identicum Yin, Shih, Engel & Ren, 2024 type species by original designation of † Grammoderma Yin, Shih, Engel & Ren, 2024
Nomenclature (1)
- † Grammoderma Yin, Shih, Engel & Ren, 2024: 515. (fossil)
type species by original designation † Grammoderma identicum Yin, Shih, Engel & Ren, 2024
Nomenclature references (1)
- Yin, Y., Shih, C.-K., Engel, M.S. & Ren, D. (2024) The first dermapterid earwigs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of northeastern China (Dermaptera: Dermapteridae). Palaeoentomology, 7(4), 513–528. https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.4.11
Descendants and synonyms
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| species | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
The new genus-group name is a combination of the Ancient Greek noun γρᾰμμή (grammḗ, meaning, “line” or “mark”) and the noun δέρμᾰ (dérma, meaning, “skin”), and refers to the dark stripe on the tegmina.