Diplatyidae
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| Tytthodiplatys mecynocercus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Dermaptera |
| Superfamily: | Pygidicranoidea |
| Family: | Diplatyidae Verhoeff, 1902[1] |
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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
- Subfamily Diplatyinae Verhoeff, 1902
- Genus Circodiplatys Steinmann, 1986
- Genus Diplatys AudinetServille, 1831
- Genus Haplodiplatys Hincks, 1955
- Genus Lobodiplatys Steinmann, 1986
- Genus Schizodiplatys Steinmann, 1974
- Subfamily incertae sedis
- Genus †Tytthodiplatys Engel, 2011
References
- ^ a b c d The Dermaptera Species file Diplatyidae entry accessed 6 Sept 2012
- ^ a b Engel, M.S. (2011). "New earwigs in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Dermaptera, Neodermaptera)". ZooKeys. 130: 137–152. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1293. PMC 3260755. PMID 22259272.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ The Taxonomicon: Family Diplatyidae. Accessed 2009-06-26.
External links
- The Earwig Research Centre's Diplatyidae database Source for references: type Diplatyidae in the "family" field and click "search".
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