Misplaced Pages

Opisthocosmiinae

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Subfamily of earwigs

Opisthocosmiinae
Opisthocosmia sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Suborder: Neodermaptera
Infraorder: Epidermaptera
Superfamily: Forficuloidea
Family: Forficulidae
Subfamily: Opisthocosmiinae
Verhoeff, 1902

Opisthocosmiinae is a subfamily of earwigs in the family Forficulidae. There are more than 100 described species in Opisthocosmiinae, recorded especially from Asia and the Americas.

Timomenus komarowi

Genera

These 18 genera belong to the subfamily Opisthocosmiinae:

References

  1. Lesley, S.D. (2018). "subfamily Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902". 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.

External links

Taxon identifiers
Opisthocosmiinae
Categories: