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Genus

Forficula Linnaeus, 1758

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Forficula Linnaeus, 1758

Nomenclature (59)

  • Forficula Linnaeus, 1758: 423.

    type species by subsequent designation Forficula auricularia Linnaeus, 1758 in Latreille, 1810: 433

  • Forficula Linnaeus, 1758 in Latreille, 1802: 268.
  • Forficula Linnaeus, 1758 in Matzke, 2012: 175. Key
  • Forficula Linnaeus, 1758 in Belkair, Mazzia, Pasquet & Capowiez, 2018 Behavior; Ecology

Nomenclature references (56)

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  • Latreille, P.A. (1802) Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, France, xii + 13–467. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884921
  • 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.
  • Gené, C.G. (1837) Descrizione di cinque nuove forficole d'Europa con alcune osservazioni intorno a varie specie giá conosciute di questo genere. Annali Museo Civico Storia nat Genova, 7, 82–90.
  • Dohrn, H. (1865) Versuch einer Monographie der Dermapteren. Entomologische Zeitung, 26, 68–99.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1876) Brief synopsis of North American earwigs, with an appendix on the fossil species. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 2, 249–260.
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1882) Prodomus der europäischen Orthopteren. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 466 pp.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1891) A revision of the Forficulidae with descriptions of new species in the British Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 23, 502–531. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31595946
  • Fenard, M.A. (1896) Recherches sur les organes complementaire internes de l’appareil genital des Orthopteres. Theses presentees a la facultedes sciences de Paris. L. Danel, Lille, 143 pp. PhD thesis.
  • de Bormans, A. & Krauss, H.A. (1900) Forficulidae und Hemimeridae. Das Tierreich, 11, 142 pp.
  • Semenov, A. (1901) Russian species of Anechura Scudd. Forficula (L.) Scudd. (Orthoptera, Forficulidae) and their geographic distribution. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, XXXV, 185–201.
  • 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/
  • Borelli, A. (1909) Forficole raccolte dal Prof. F. Silvestri nell‘America Settentrionale e nelle isole Havvaii. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d’Agricoltura in Portici, 3(Maggio), 314–328.
  • Burr, M. (1910) The Fauna of British India: Dermaptera (Earwigs). Taylor and Francis, London, 217 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8271/
  • Burr, M. (1911) Dermaptera. In Genera Insectorum. Vol. 122, pp. 1–112. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105421/
  • Burr, M. (1912) Die Dermaptera des k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 26, 63–108.
  • Zacher, F. (1912) Das männliche Copulationsorgan und das System der Eudermaptera. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, 276–284.
  • 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. (1914) Notes on the identity of the Dermaptera described by Thunberg. Entomologist's Record, 26, 138–139.
  • 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.
  • Lucas, W. (1920) A Monograph of the British Orthoptera. Adlard & Son and West Newman, Ltd., London and Dorking, 264 pp.
  • Chopard, L. (1922) Orthoptères et Dermaptères. Faune de France, 3, 212 pp.
  • Borelli, A. (1923) Dermapteres du Congo Belge. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 11(4), 412–434.
  • Houlbert, C. (1924) Thysanoure--Dermapteres et Orthopteres de France et de la faune europeene, Tome Premier. Octave Doin, Paris, 377 pp.
  • Kuhl, W. (1925) Die Variabilität der abdominalen Körperanhänge bei Forficula auricularia L. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 30, 145–152.
  • Schröder, C. (1925) Handbuch der Entomologie. Gustav Fischer, Jena, Vol. 3, Issue 8, 221 pp.
  • Menozzi, C. (1927) Dermatteri del Deutsches Entomologisches Museum di Dahlem-Berlin. Entomologische Mitteilungen, 16, 234–240.
  • 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]
  • Townes, H.K. (1945) A list of the generic and subgeneric names of the Dermaptera, with their genotypes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 38, 343–356.
  • Hincks, W. (1947) Entomological results from Swedish expedition 1934 to Burma and British India. Dermaptera collected by Rene Malaise. Arkiv för Zoologi, 39A, 1–43.
  • Hincks, W. (1957) The Earwigs of South Africa. South African Animal Life, 4(Chapter 2), 33–94.
  • Herter, K. (1960) Zur Fortpflanzungsbiologie des Meeresstrand-Ohrwurmes Anisolabis maritima Bor. Zoologische Beiträge, Neue Folge, 5, 199–239.
  • Brindle, A. (1966) A new species of Forficula L. (Dermaptera, Forficulidae) from Africa. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 102, 147–149.
  • Kapoor, V. (1967) Catalogue on the Indian Dermaptera. Agra University Journal of Research, 16(1), 1–42.
  • Nishikawa, M. (1969) On the genus Forficula of Japan including the Ryukyus. Kontyû, Tokyo Entomological Society, 38(1), 75–83.
  • Popham, E. & Brindle, A. (1969) Genera and species of the Dermaptera: 10. Forficulinae (Forficulidae). The Entomologist, 102, 61–66.
  • Nishikawa, M. (1970) On the Genus Forficula of Japan including the Ryukyus (Dermaptera, Forficulidae). Kontyû, Tokyo Entomological Society, 38(1), 75–83.
  • Brindle, A. (1971) A key to the Ethiopian species of Forficula L (Dermaptera, Forficulidae). The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 107, 195–199.
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  • Brindle, A. (1973) The Dermaptera of Africa. Pt I. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, série in 8: Sciences Zoologiques, 205, 1–335.
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  • 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.
  • Lamb, R. (1976) Dispersal by nesting earwigs Forficula auricularia (Dermaptera: Forficulidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 108(2), 213–216.
  • Srivastava, G.K. (1976) Catalogue of Oriental Dermaptera. Records of the Zoological Survey of India Occasional Paper, 2, 1–94.
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  • 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.
  • Lehr, P.A. (1986) Keys to Insects of the Far East of the USSR in 6 Volumes. Vol. 1. Apterygota, Palaeoptera, and Hemimetabola. Nauka, Leningrad, 205 pp. [in Russian]
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  • 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.
  • O'Hara, J.E. (1996) Earwig parasitoids of the genus Triarthria Stephens (Diptera: Tachinidae) in the New World. The Canadian Entomologist, 128(1) January-February), 15–26.
  • Klass, K.-D. (2001) The female abdomen of the viviparous earwig Hemimerus vosseleri (Insecta: Dermaptera: Hemimeridae), with a discussion of the postgenital abdomen of Insecta. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 131, 251–307.
  • Matzke, D. (2012) A contribution to the fauna of earwings of Nepal with description of a new species (Insecta: Dermaptera). In Biodiversity and Natural Heritage of the Himalaya: Vol. IV. Naturkundemuseum Erfurt, Erfurt. pp. 149–177.
  • Belkair, S.A., Mazzia, C., Pasquet, A. & Capowiez, Y. (2018) Temporal activity of spiders and earwigs during winter in apple trees under a Mediterranean climate. BIOCONTROL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 28(9), 823–836.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Superspecies1001
Species91385179
Subspecies3047