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Dermaptera Species File
Subfamily

Forficulinae Latreille, 1810

Type

type genus of Forficulinae Latreille, 1810

Nomenclature (46)

  • Forficulinae Latreille, 1810: 244, 246.

    type genus Forficula Linnaeus, 1758

  • Forficulini Latreille, 1810 (not Latin)

    type genus Forficula Linnaeus, 1758

  • Doratinae Burr, 1907 (subjective synonym of Forficulinae Latreille, 1810) in Engel & Haas, 2007: 5.
  • Apterygidinae Verhoeff, 1902 (subjective synonym of Forficulinae Latreille, 1810) in Engel & Haas, 2007: 5.

Nomenclature references (40)

  • 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.
  • Verhoeff, K.W. (1902) Über Dermapteren. 1. Aufsatz. Versuch eines neuen, natürlichen Systems auf vergleichend-morphologischer Grundlage und über den Mikrothorax der Insecten. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 25, 181–209. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37981#page/195/
  • Burr, M. (1907) A preliminary revision of the Forficulidae (sensu stricto) and of the Chelisochidae, families of the Dermatoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society, 1907, 91–134. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48288#page/303/
  • Burr, M. (1910) The Dermaptera (earwigs) of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 38, 443–467. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32576#page/505/
  • Burr, M. (1911) Dermaptera. In Genera Insectorum. Vol. 122, pp. 1–112. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105421/
  • Zacher, F. (1911) Studien über das System der Protodermapteren. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 30, 303–400. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/99926
  • Burr, M. (1912) Die Dermaptera des k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 26, 63–108.
  • Caudell, A.N. (1913) Notes on the Nearctic orthopterous insects. I. Nonsaltatorial forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 44, 595–614.
  • Burr, M. (1916) On the male genital armature of the Dermaptera. Part III: Eudermaptera. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Dec.1916;Ser.2, 1–18.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1920) Orthoptera of Northeastern America. The Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, USA, 784 pp.
  • Chopard, L. (1922) Orthoptères et Dermaptères. Faune de France, 3, 212 pp.
  • Rehn, J. (1924) The Dermaptera of the American Museum Congo Expedition, with a catalogue of the Belgian Congo Species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 49, 349–413.
  • Menozzi, C. (1927) Dermatteri del Deutsches Entomologisches Museum di Dahlem-Berlin. Entomologische Mitteilungen, 16, 234–240.
  • Günther, K. (1929) Die Dermapteren der deutschen Kaiserin Augusta-Fluss-Expedition 1912/13. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15(1), 55–83.
  • Borelli, A. (1931) Dermapteres de L‘Inde meridionale. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 38(10), 289–308.
  • Moreira, C. (1932) Dermapteros da colleccao do Museu Paulista. Revista de Entomologia (São Paulo), 2, 277–289.
  • Rehn, J. (1933) Some Dermaptera from Angola, Northern Rhodesia and Belgian Congo, with a description of a new species of Karschiella. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 59, 1–10.
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. (1934) Schwedisch-chinesische wissenschaftliche Expedition nach den nordwestichen Provinzen Chinas unter Leitung von Dr. Sven Hedin und Prof. Sü Ping-chang. Insekten. 8. Orthoptera. 7. Forficulidae et Tetrigidae. Arkiv för Zoologi, 25A(20), 1–13.
  • Wu, C. (1935) Dermaptera. Catalugus Insectorum Siensium, 2, 593–610.
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. (1936) Insectes Dermaptères. Faune de l'URSS, 1–239. [in Russian; with summary, key and index in English pp. 208-239]
  • Rehn, J. (1936) Zoological Results of the George Vanderbilt African Expedition of 1934. Part V. -Dermaptera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, LXXXVIII, 507–526.
  • Hincks, W.D. (1938) Dermaptera. Exploration du Parc National Albert, Mission G.F. de Witte, 1933-1935, Fascicule17, 3–16.
  • Kevan, D. (1951) Records of Trinidad Earwigs (Dermaptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12(Volume 4), 249–257.
  • Boeseman, M. (1954) The Dermaptera in the Museums at Leiden and Amsterdam. Zoologische Verhandlingen, 21, 1–117.
  • Hincks, W. (1957) The Earwigs of South Africa. South African Animal Life, 4(Chapter 2), 33–94.
  • Ramamurthi, B.N. (1960) Dermaptera from Nilgiri and Kodaikanal Hills with description of a new species. Bulletin of Entomology (Madras), 1, 34–37.
  • Popham, E. (1965) A key to dermapteran subfamilies. The Entomologist, 98, 126–136.
  • Brindle, A. (1967) The Dermaptera of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Part II. Arkiv för Zoologi, 20(7), 147–163.
  • Brindle, A. (1968) The Dermaptera of the Canary Islands. Arkiv för Zoologi, 22(3), 139–148.
  • Popham, E. & Brindle, A. (1969) Genera and species of the Dermaptera: 10. Forficulinae (Forficulidae). The Entomologist, 102, 61–66.
  • Brindle, A. (1971) The Dermaptera of Ceylon Report No. 10, Lund University Ceylon Expedition in 1962. Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement, 1, 208–236.
  • Reichardt, H. (1971) Catalogue of new world Dermaptera (Insecta). Part IV Forficuloidea. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 24, 161–184.
  • Sakai, S. (1973) VII. Forficulidae. Dermapterorum Catalogus Praeliminaris, 357 pp.
  • Steinmann, H. (1975) Suprageneric classification of Dermaptera. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 21, 195–220.
  • Srivastava, G.K. (1976) Catalogue of Oriental Dermaptera. Records of the Zoological Survey of India Occasional Paper, 2, 1–94.
  • 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. (1983) The survey of the Dermaptera material in the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden. Part 2: Eudermaptera. Reichenbachia, 21(7), 45–59.
  • Steinmann, H. (1989c) World Catalogue of Dermaptera. In Series Entomologica. Vol. 43, 1–934 pp.
  • Steinmann, H. (1993) Dermaptera: Eudermaptera II. Das Tierreich, 108, 709 pp.
  • Engel, M.S. & Haas, F. (2007) Family-Group names for Earwigs (Dermaptera). American Museum Novitates, 3567, 1–20.

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Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subfamily1034
Genus111618
Subgenus0000
Superspecies1001
Species1694187360
Subspecies3047