DERMAPTERA
(earwigs)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
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No of
ID refs
Family 2 subtaxa 24 images 2 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Genus 2 subtaxa 24 images 2 ident. refs
Family 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
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Family 1 subtaxa 4 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
OrderDERMAPTERA (earwigs)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Chopard, L. 1951 *** Orthoptèroïdes ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 56, 358pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
Chopard, L. 1922 *** Orthoptères et Dermaptères ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 3, 212pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
Grasshoppers & Related Insects Recording Scheme Native Earwigs, Native Cockroaches and Naturalised Stick-insects
Hackston, M. Order Dermaptera key to British species
Hincks, W.D. 1949 *** Dermaptera and Orthoptera ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the identification of British insects, Vol 1, Part 5, 24pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Lucas, W.J. 1920 *** A Monograph of the British Orthoptera ***(Superseded) Vol 105, 264+25 platespp, The Ray Society, London
() Marshall, J.A. & Haes, E.C.M. 1988 Grasshoppers and allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland 252pp, Harley Books
Savory, T.H. 1955 *** The World of Small Animals ***(Superseded) 160pp, University of London Press
Sutton, P., Beckmann, B. & Roy, H. Orthoptera and allied insects species.orthoptera.org.uk/default.aspx

Regional Guides

Paul, J. 1989 Grasshoppers & Crickets of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire 96pp, Pisces Publications

Stored Product Pests

Mound, L. (ed) 1989 Common Insects of Stored Products: a guide to their identification Economic Series, No 15, Seventh Edition edition, 68pp, British Museum (Natural History)

DERMAPTERA (earwigs) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DERMAPTERA (earwigs)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 5 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for DERMAPTERA (earwigs)
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