protelytroptera

{{Short description|Extinct order of earwigs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Protelytroptera

| authority = Tillyard, 1931

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision_ref = {{fossilworks |id=189433 |title=Protelytroptera |date=16 May 2022}}{{cite journal|last1=Carpenter|first1=F.M.|last2=Kukalová, J.|date=December 1964|publication-date=March 6, 1965|title=The Structure of the Protelytroptera, With Description of a New Genus From Permian Strata of Moravi|journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology|volume=71|issue=4|pages=183–197|doi=10.1155/1964/41528|doi-access=free|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50905703}}{{cite journal|last=Kukalová|first=J.|date=June 1966|publication-date=October 21, 1966|title=Protelytroptera From the Upper Permian of Australia, With a Discussion of the Protocoleoptera and Paracoleoptera|journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology|volume=73|issue=2|pages=89–111|doi=10.1155/1966/93549|doi-access=free|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50963719}}{{cite journal|last=Kukalová-Peck|first=J.|date=1987|publication-date=July 25, 1988|title=A Substitute Name for the Extinct Genus Stenelytron Kukalová (Protelytroptera)|journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology|volume=94|issue=3–4|page=339|doi=10.1155/1987/17543|doi-access=free|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50924243}}

| subdivision =

• Apachelytridae
• Archelytridae
• Bardocoleidae
• Dermelytridae
• Elytroneuridae
• Labidelytridae
• Megelytridae
• Permelytridae
• Permophilidae
• Planelytridae
• Protelytridae
• Protocoleidae
• Stephanastidae

| synonyms = {{Taxon list

| Protocoleoptera | Tillyard, 1924

| Paracoleoptera | Laurentiaux, 1953

| Skleroptera | Kirejtshuk and Nel, 2013

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Protelytroptera is an extinct order of insects thought to be a stem group from which the modern Dermaptera evolved. These insects, which resemble modern Blattodea, or cockroaches, are known from the Permian of North America, Europe and Australia, from the fossils of their shell-like forewings and the large, unequal anal fan. None of their fossils are known from the Triassic, when the morphological changes from Protelytroptera to Dermaptera presumably took place.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tolweb.org/Dermaptera|title=Dermaptera — Earwigs|author=Fabian Haas|publisher=Tree of Life web project|date=18 July 1996|access-date=17 November 2024}}