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Dermaptera Species File
family

Hemimeridae Sharp, 1895

Type

Hemimerus Walker, 1871 type genus of Hemimeridae Sharp, 1895

Nomenclature (23)

  • Diploglossata de Saussure, 1879 (not Latin) Classification
  • Hemimeridae Sharp, 1895: 217.

    type genus Hemimerus Walker, 1871

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  • Hemimeridae Sharp, 1895 (classified as Forficuloidea Latreille, 1810) in Kamimura, 2025: 12.
  • Hemimeroidea Sharp, 1895 (family-group name form of Hemimeridae Sharp, 1895) in Kamimura, 2025: 12.

Nomenclature references (13)

  • Burr, M. (1911) Dermaptera. In Genera Insectorum. Vol. 122, pp. 1–112. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105421/
  • Burr, M. (1911) On some South African Dermaptera (Earwigs) in the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum, 10(1), 1–17.
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  • de Saussure, H. (1879) Spicilegia entomologica genavensia I. Sur le genre Hemimerus Walk. Paraissant former un ordre nouveau dans la classe des Hexapodes. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 26(2), 399–420.
  • de Saussure, H. (1896) Note supplementaire sur le genre Hemimerus. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 4, 277–300.
  • Engel, M.S. & Haas, F. (2007) Family-Group names for Earwigs (Dermaptera). American Museum Novitates, 3567, 1–20.
  • Engel, M.S. (2003) The earwigs of Kansas, with a key to genera north of Mexico (Insecta: Dermaptera). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 106, 115–123. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1660/0022-8443(2003)106[0115:TEOKWA]2.0.CO;2
  • Handlirsch, A.P.J. (1938) Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. II. Teil. Die Insekten der Trias. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 49, 1–240. Available at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/ANNA_49_0001-0240.pdf
  • Kamimura, Y. (2025) Re-examination of diagnostic traits for the higher classificationof Dermaptera (Insecta) and a new classification systemfor 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
  • Pearse, A.S. (1936) Zoological names. A list of phyla, classes, and orders, prepared for section F, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Duke University Press, 1–24 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.6792
  • Scholtz, C. (1985) Order Hemimerina. Insects of southern Africa, p. 70.
  • Sharp, D. (1895) The Cambridge Natural History. Vol. V. Chapter VIII. Orthoptera. pp. 198–219.
  • Verhoeff, K. (1902) Über die verwandtschaftliche Stellung von Hemimerus. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1902, 87–89.
  • Vishnyakova, V. (1980) Earwigs (Insecta, Forficulida) from the Upper Jurassic of the Karatau Range. Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal, 1980(1), 78–94.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
superfamily0000
family1056
genus2002
species110213
subspecies0000