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Dermaptera Species File
Superfamily

Forficuloidea Latreille, 1810

Type

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

Nomenclature references (10)

  • 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.
  • Tillyard, R.J. (1926) Dermaptera. Insects of Australia and New Zealand, 107–112.
  • Popham, E. (1965) A key to dermapteran subfamilies. The Entomologist, 98, 126–136.
  • Steinmann, H. (1975) Suprageneric classification of Dermaptera. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 21, 195–220.
  • 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.
  • 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. (1989a) Dermaptera. Eudermaptera I. Das Tierreich, Supplement No. 106, 1–558. [1990]
  • 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.
  • 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.

Other references (0)

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Superfamily1001
Family50914
Subfamily2302346
Tribe3014
Genus1291161201
Subgenus1001
Superspecies1001
Species11652012072392
Subspecies3301245