Labidura

{{Short description|Genus of earwigs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Eocene-Quaternary

| image = Labidura riparia.jpg

| image_caption = Labidura riparia

| taxon = Labidura

| authority = Leach, 1815

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| synonyms =

• Demogorgon Kirby, 1891
• Forficesila Audinet-Serville, 1831

}}

Labidura is a genus of earwigs in the family Labiduridae.{{Cite web|url=http://dermaptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1179928|title=genus Labidura Leach, 1815|last=|first=|date=|website=Dermaptera Species File|publisher=|access-date=17 January 2017}} Probably the earliest specimen of Labidura was found in Eocene amber.M. Burr. 1911. Dermaptera (earwigs) preserved in amber, from Prussia. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series: Zoology 11:145-150 Among the Labidura species, Labidura riparia is cosmopolitan, but the Saint Helena earwig (Labidura herculeana) was the largest of all earwigs before its possible extinction after the year of 1967.{{cite web |title=Labidura |work=St Helena and Ascension Island Natural History |url=http://www.kidstonmill.org.uk/Labidura.htm |access-date=5 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717014815/http://www.kidstonmill.org.uk/Labidura.htm |archive-date=17 July 2011 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141117-giant-earwig-declared-extinct|title=World's largest earwig is declared extinct|author=Matt Walker|website=BBC Earth|date=2014-11-17|publisher=|language=en|access-date=2017-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501144702/http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141117-giant-earwig-declared-extinct|archive-date=2017-05-01}}