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. 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. 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. (1926) Dermaptera. Insects of Australia and New Zealand, 107–112.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Valid names
RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
superfamily1001
family4048
subfamily2402347
tribe3014
genus130660196
subgenus1012
superspecies1001
species11451512052365
subspecies3201345