Neodermaptera

Neodermaptera
Temporal range: Cretaceous–Recent
Forficula decipiens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Suborder: Neodermaptera
Engel, 2003[1]

Neodermaptera, sometimes called Catadermaptera,[2] is a suborder of earwigs in the order Dermaptera. There are more than 2,000 described species in Neodermaptera. [3][4][5]

The former suborders Forficulina, Hemimerina, and Arixeniina have been reduced in rank to family and placed into the new suborder Neodermaptera. Neodermaptera now contains all the extant species of Dermaptera, while the extinct species make up the suborders Archidermaptera and Eodermaptera.[3][5]

  1. ^ Engel MS (2003) Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 106: 116.
  2. ^ BioLib.cz: suborder Catadermaptera Steinmann, 1986 (retrieved 16 September 2022)
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