Protodiplatyidae
Appearance
Protodiplatyidae Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Dermaptera |
Suborder: | †Archidermaptera |
Family: | †Protodiplatyidae Martynov 1925 |
Genera[1][2] | |
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Protodiplatyidae is an extinct family of earwigs. It is one of three families in the suborder Archidermaptera, alongside Dermapteridae and Turanovia. Species are known from Jurassic and Early Cretaceous fossils[3][4] and have unsegmented cerci and tarsi with four to five segments.[4]
Genera
The family includes the following genera:
- †Abrderma Daohugou, China, Callovian
- †Archidermapteron Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Oxfordian
- †Asiodiplatys Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Oxfordian
- †Barbderma Yixian Formation, China, Aptian
- †Longicerciata Laiyang Formation China, Aptian
- †Microdiplatys Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Oxfordian, Itat Formation, Russia, Bajocian
- †Perissoderma Daohugou, China, Callovian
- †Protodiplatys Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Oxfordian, Gurvan-Eren Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
- †Sinoprotodiplatys Yixian Formation, China, Aptian
References
- ^ http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Protodiplatyidae
- ^ http://dermaptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=2866
- ^ Fabian Haas, Archidermaptera, Tree of Life website
- ^ a b Fabian Haas, Dermaptera: Earwigs, Tree of Life website
External links
- A drawing of the species Asiodiplatys speciousus
- A drawing of the species Dermapteron incerta
- A drawing of the species Archidermapteron martynovi