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Labiduridae

{{Short description|Family of earwigs}}

{{Redirect|Striped earwig|a specific species|Labidura riparia}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Albian|recent}}

| image = Nala lividipes.jpg

| image_caption = Nala lividipes

| display_parents = 3

| parent_authority = Verhoeff, 1902

| taxon = Labiduridae

| authority = Verhoeff, 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision_ref = {{cite web|title=Checklist for LABIDURIDAE|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/LABIDURIDAE/checklist#selected|publisher=Australian Government: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts|location=Australia|date=2008-10-09|work=Australian Faunal Directory|access-date=2009-06-27}}

| subdivision = See text

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Labiduridae, whose members are known commonly as striped earwigs,{{cite web|url=http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Labiduridae|title=Discover Life - Dermaptera: Labiduridae - Common brown earwig, Striped earwigs|access-date=2009-06-27|work=Discover Life}} is a relatively large family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera.[http://dermaptera.archive.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1181769 Dermaptera Species File: Labiduridae]

Taxonomy

The family contains a total of approximately 72 species, spread across seven genera in three subfamilies.{{cite journal|last=Steinmann|first=H.|year=1989|journal=Das Tierreich|title=Dermaptera. Catadermaptera II|volume=105}}{{cite web|title=Family LABIDURIDAE|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/LABIDURIDAE|publisher=Australian Government: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts|location=Australia|date=2008-10-09|work=Australian Faunal Directory|access-date=2009-06-27}} Some well-known members of the family include Labidura riparia, commonly known as the tawny earwig, and Gonolabidura meteor. The family is mostly cosmopolitan, so it can be found around the world. At least two species have been described from middle Cretaceous aged Burmese amber, Myrrholabia and Zigrasolabis.{{Cite journal |last1=Engel |first1=MS |last2=Grimaldi |first2=D |year=2014 |title=New mid-Cretaceous earwigs in amber from Myanmar (Dermaptera) |journal= Novitates Paleoentomologicae |volume=6 |pages =1–16}}

Description

The family's members are moderate to large earwigs, and are cylindrically shaped with well-developed wings. They have especially long antennae, while some segments can be shorter, and large cerci.

Genera

The family contains the following genera:{{cite web|last1=Hopkins|first1=H.|last2=Maehr|first2=M. D.|last3=Haas|first3=F.|last4=Deem|first4=L. S.|title=family Labiduridae Verhoeff, 1902|url=http://dermaptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1181769|website=Dermaptera Species File|access-date=7 January 2017}}

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Labiduridae}}

{{Wikispecies|Labiduridae}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100914120315/http://134.60.85.50:591/Earwig_online/SystematicsN_su.html The Earwig Research Centre's Labiduridae database] Source for references: type Labiduridae in the "family" field and click "search".
  • [http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/LABIDURIDAE Australian Faunal Directory: Labiduridae]
  • [http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/graphic/e57210a6-b3a6-4a04-9f83-fd15709a2d9c An image of the family].

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Category:Dermaptera families

Category:Extant Albian first appearances

Category:Forficulina

Category:Taxa named by Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff

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