Diplatyidae

Diplatyidae
Temporal range: Albian-Recent
Tytthodiplatys mecynocercus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Suborder: Neodermaptera
Family: Diplatyidae
Verhoeff, 1902[1]
Subfamilies & Genera
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Diplatyidae is a family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera.[1][2] It contains only one subfamily, Diplatyinae,[1][3] which contains six genera, five modern and one extinct known from fossils. The genus Tytthodiplatys was described in 2011 from a fossil found in Burmese amber which dates to the Albian age of the Cretaceous. It was not placed into the subfamily Diplatyinae, and is the oldest confirmed member of the family.[2]

Taxonomy

Genera as listed at the Dermaptera species file:[1] Diplatyidae Verhoeff, 1902

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 The Dermaptera Species file Diplatyidae entry accessed 6 Sept 2012
  2. 1 2 Engel, M.S. (2011). "New earwigs in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Dermaptera, Neodermaptera)". ZooKeys. 130: 137–152. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1293.
  3. The Taxonomicon: Family Diplatyidae. Accessed 2009-06-26.
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