Anechurinae

Anechurinae
Anechura bipunctata (immature)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Suborder: Neodermaptera
Infraorder: Epidermaptera
Superfamily: Forficuloidea
Family: Forficulidae
Subfamily: Anechurinae
Burr, 1907

Anechurinae is a subfamily of earwigs in the family Forficulidae. There are more than 70 described species in Anechurinae. [1][2]

Genera

The Dermaptera Species File includes:

  1. Anechura Scudder, 1876
  2. Chelidura Latreille, 1825
  3. Chelidurella Verhoeff, 1902
  4. Eumegalura Bey-Bienko, 1934
  5. Mesasiobia Semenov, 1908
  6. Mesochelidura Verhoeff, 1902
  7. Neopterygida Srivastava, 1984
  8. Oreasiobia Semenov, 1936
  9. Perirrhytus Burr, 1911
  10. Pseudochelidura Verhoeff, 1902
  11. Pterygida Verhoeff, 1902

References

  1. ^ Lesley, S.D. (2018). "subfamily Anechurinae Burr, 1907". Dermaptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  2. ^ Engel, Michael S.; Haas, Fabian (2007). "Family-Group Names for Earwigs (Dermaptera)". American Museum Novitates (3567). American Museum of Natural History: 1. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2007)539[1:FNFED]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5858. S2CID 85642033.

Further reading

  • Jarvis, Karl J.; Haas, Fabian; Whiting, Michael F. (2005). "Phylogeny of earwigs (Insecta: Dermaptera) based on molecular and morphological evidence: reconsidering the classification of Dermaptera". Systematic Entomology. 30 (3): 442–453. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00276.x. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 85718043.
  • Steinmann, H. (1989). Spencer, K. A. (ed.). World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Series Entomologica. Vol. 43. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7923-0096-0.


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