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Dermaptera Species File
Subfamily

Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902

Type

type genus of Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902

Nomenclature (33)

  • Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902: 195.

    type genus Opisthocosmia Dohrn, 1865

  • Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902 in Burr, 1907: 98. Key
  • Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902 in Engel & Haas, 2007: 5.
  • Eparchinae Burr, 1907 (subjective synonym of Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902) in Engel & Haas, 2007: 5.

Nomenclature references (31)

  • 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. (1909) Notes on the classification of the Dermaptera. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1909, 320–328. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103377#page/342/
  • 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. (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/
  • 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.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1922) Studies in Costa Rican Dermaptera and Orthoptera. Paper One. Two new genera and three new species of Dermaptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 47, 307–318.
  • 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.
  • Günther, K. (1929) Die Dermapteren der deutschen Kaiserin Augusta-Fluss-Expedition 1912/13. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15(1), 55–83.
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Gangola, D. (1965) Studies on the Dermaptera of Kumaon Hills. Part I (Forficulidea). The Entomologist, 98, 227–236.
  • Popham, E. (1965) A key to dermapteran subfamilies. The Entomologist, 98, 126–136.
  • Brindle, A. (1966) The Dermaptera of Madagascar. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 118(7), 221–259.
  • Ramamurthi, B. (1967) Dermaptera collected by the Noona Dan Expedition in the Philippine and Bismarck Islands. Entomologiske Meddelelser, 35, 227–259.
  • Brindle, A. (1968) The Dermaptera of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Part III. Arkiv för Zoologi, 20(25), 533–552.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
Subfamily1012
Genus190928
Species1080124232
Subspecies90514