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Dermaptera Species File
Species

Cranopygia formosa Hincks, 1955

Nomenclature (5)

  • Cranopygia formosa Hincks, 1955: 823.

    Holotype; male; a98edcd1-d71b-4a11-adcb-fa160a2474df; deposited at: Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History)), London, UK (BMNH);

  • Paracranopygia formosa (Hincks, 1955) in Steinmann, 1986: 278. Classification
  • Pyge formosa (Hincks, 1955) in Engel & Haas, 2007: 19.
  • Cranopygia formosa Hincks, 1955 in Kamimura, Nishikawa & Lee, 2016: 61. Classification

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Engel, M.S. & Haas, F. (2007) Family-Group names for Earwigs (Dermaptera). American Museum Novitates, 3567, 1–20.
  • Hincks, W.D. (1955) New species of pygidicranine earwigs (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12(Volume 8), 806–827. [1956]
  • Kamimura, Y., Nishikawa, M. & Lee, C.-Y. (2016) A new earwig of the genus Echinosoma from Penang Island, Peninsular Malaysia, with notes on the taxonomic and nomenclatural problems of the genus Cranopygia (Insecta, Dermaptera, Pygidicranidae). ZooKeys, 636, 51–65. Available at http://https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5126516/
  • 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.

Other references (0)

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: beautiful.