Dermaptera Species FileDermaptera Species File

superfamily

Forficuloidea Latreille, 1810

Type

Forficula Linnaeus, 1758 type genus of Forficuloidea Latreille, 1810

Nomenclature (10)

  • Forficuloidea Latreille, 1810: 244, 246.

    type genus Forficula Linnaeus, 1758

  • Forficuloidea Latreille, 1810 in Tillyard, 1926: 108. Classification
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  • Forficuloidea Latreille, 1810 in Engel & Haas, 2007: 5.
  • Forficuloidea Latreille, 1810 in Ross, 2019 Distribution/Dispersal/Specimen Records

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Engel, M.S. & Haas, F. (2007) Family-Group names for Earwigs (Dermaptera). American Museum Novitates, 3567, 1–20.
  • Harz, K. & Kaltenbach, A. (1976) Die Orthopteren Europas III. Dr. W. Junk B. V. In Die Orthopteren Europas III. Dr. W. Junk B. V., The Hague. Vol. 3, 1–434 pp.
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  • Latreille, P.A. (1810) Consideration générales sur l'ordre naturel des Animaux composant les classes des Crustaces, des Arachnides, et des Insectesl; avec un Tableau methodique de leurs genres, disposes en families. F. Schoell, Paris, 444 pp.
  • Popham, E. (1965) A key to dermapteran subfamilies. The Entomologist, 98, 126–136.
  • Ross, A.J. (2019) The Blattodea (cockroaches), Mantodea (praying mantises) and Dermaptera (earwigs) of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, including the first record of Mantodea from the UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 110(3-4), 301–311.
  • Sakai, S. (1982) A new proposed classification of the Dermaptera with special reference to the check list of the Dermaptera of the world. Daito Bunka University, 20, 1–108.
  • Steinmann, H. (1975) Suprageneric classification of Dermaptera. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 21, 195–220.
  • Steinmann, H. (1989a) Dermaptera. Eudermaptera I. Das Tierreich, Supplement No. 106, 1–558.
  • Steinmann, H. (1989c) World Catalogue of Dermaptera. In Series Entomologica. Vol. 43, 1–934 pp.
  • Tillyard, R.J. (1926) Dermaptera. Insects of Australia and New Zealand, 107–112.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Valid names
RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
superfamily1001
family4048
subfamily2402347
tribe3014
genus130660196
subgenus1001
superspecies1001
species11481512052368
subspecies320840