Chelisochidae

{{Short description|Family of earwigs}}

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| image_caption = Chelisoches morio

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| taxon = Chelisochidae

| authority = Verhoeff, 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

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| subdivision = See text

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Chelisochidae is a family of earwigs{{cite web|title=Checklist for CHELISOCHIDAE|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/CHELISOCHIDAE/checklist#selected|publisher=Australian Government: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts|location=Australia|date=2008-10-09|work=Australian Faunal Directory|accessdate=2009-06-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302142823/http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/CHELISOCHIDAE/checklist#selected|archive-date=2011-03-02|url-status=dead}}See first entry in external links section for reference. whose members are commonly known as black earwigs.{{cite web|url=http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Chelisochidae|title=Discover Life - Dermaptera: Chelisochidae - Black earwig, Black earwigs|accessdate=2009-06-26|work=Discover Life}} The family contains a total of approximately 96 species, spread across sixteen genera in three subfamilies.{{cite journal|last=Steinmann|first=H.|year=1993|journal=Das Tierreich|title=Dermaptera. Eudermaptera II|volume=108}}{{cite web|title=Family CHELISOCHIDAE|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/CHELISOCHIDAE|publisher=Australian Government: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts|location=Australia|date=2008-10-09|work=Australian Faunal Directory|accessdate=2009-06-26}}

They are primarily located in the more tropical Afrotropical, Australasian, and Oriental realms, even though some species, such as Chelisoches morio, are cosmopolitan. They are often dark in color, lending to their common name, and can vary in size. They can be easily identified due to a certain characteristic in their tarsi, involving a ventral projection on the second tarsal segment. Like most earwigs, they are omnivores, and their diet consists of the larvae of leaf-mining insects, as well as certain types of vegetation.