- Source: Forficulidae
Forficulidae is a family of earwigs in the order Dermaptera. There are more than 70 genera and 490 described species in Forficulidae.
Species in this family include Forficula auricularia (the European earwig or common earwig) and Apterygida media (the short-winged earwig or hop-garden earwig).
Forficulidae was formerly considered a suborder of Dermaptera, Forficulina, but was reduced in rank to family and placed in suborder Neodermaptera.
Genera
These 71 genera belong to the family Forficulidae:
References
Further reading
External links
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Dermaptera
- Forficulidae
- Forficula smyrnensis
- Forficula auricularia
- Earwig
- List of Orthopteroid genera containing species recorded in Europe
- Mikado
- List of Dermapterans of Australia
- Forficula
- List of Orthoptera and allied insects of Great Britain
- Doru taeniatum
