Dermapteridae

{{Short description|Extinct family of earwigs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Norian|Barremian}}

| image = Sinopalaeodermata concavum dorsal (cropped).jpg

| image_caption = Sinopalaeodermata concavum

| taxon = Dermapteridae

| authority = Vishnyakova, 1980

| subdivision_ranks =

| subdivision = See text

| synonyms = Sinopalaeodermatidae Zhang, 2002

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Dermapteridae is an extinct family of earwigs known from the Late Triassic to Mid Cretaceous, it is part of the extinct suborder Archidermaptera, alongside Protodiplatyidae and Turanovia. It was first named as a subfamily by Vishniakova in 1980,Vishniakova, V. N. 1980. Earwigs (Insecta, Forficulida) from the Upper Jurassic of the Karatau range. Paleontological Journal 14(1), 63–79. and elevated to family status by Engel in 2003 without discussion.Engel, M. S. 2003. The earwigs of Kansas, with a key to genera north of Mexico (Insecta: Dermaptera). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 106(3/4), 115–23.{{Cite journal|last1=Kelly|first1=Richard S.|last2=Ross|first2=Andrew J.|last3=Jarzembowski|first3=Edmund A.|date=June 2016|title=Earwigs (Dermaptera) from the Mesozoic of England and Australia, described from isolated tegmina, including the first species to be named from the Triassic|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755691017000329|journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|volume=107|issue=2–3|pages=129–143|doi=10.1017/s1755691017000329|issn=1755-6910|doi-access=free|hdl=1983/d363e702-e4cb-4285-8ee8-393e808c890e|hdl-access=free}}