Diplatyidae is a family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera.[2][3] It contains three subfamilies,[2][4] and four genera incertae sedis, one modern and three extinct known from fossils.

Diplatyidae
Temporal range: Albian-Recent
Tytthodiplatys mecynocercus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Suborder: Neodermaptera
Infraorder: Protodermaptera
Superfamily: Pygidicranoidea
Family: Diplatyidae
Verhoeff, 1902[1]
Subfamilies & genera

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Taxonomy

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Subfamilies and genera as listed at the Dermaptera species file:[2]

subfamily Cylindrogastrinae Maccagno, 1929
  1. Cylindrogaster Stal, 1855

Diplatyinae

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Authority: Verhoeff, 1902

  1. Circodiplatys Steinmann, 1986
  2. Diplatyella Gorokhov & Anisyutkin, 1994
  3. Diplatys Audinet-Serville, 1831
  4. Eudiplatys Steinmann, 1986
  5. Mesodiplatys Steinmann, 1986
  6. Nannopygia Dohrn, 1862
  7. Paradiplatys Zacher, 1910

Diplatymorphinae

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Authority: V Boeseman, 1954

  1. Diplatymorpha Boeseman, 1954
  1. Acanthodiplatys Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018: monotypic A. leptocercus Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018
  2. Hirtidiplatys Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018: monotypic H. cardiophyllus Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018
  3. Songmaella Gorokhov & Anisyutkin, 1994: monotypic S. princeps Gorokhov & Anisyutkin, 1994
  4. Tytthodiplatys Engel, 2011

The genus Tytthodiplatys was described in 2011 from a fossil found in Burmese amber which dates to the Albian age of the Cretaceous. It was not placed into the subfamily Diplatyinae, and is the oldest confirmed member of the family.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Verhoeff KW (1902) Zool. Anz. 25: 187.
  2. ^ a b c The Dermaptera Species file Diplatyidae entry accessed 16 Sept 2022
  3. ^ a b Engel, M.S. (2011). "New earwigs in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Dermaptera, Neodermaptera)". ZooKeys (130): 137–152. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1293. PMC 3260755. PMID 22259272.
  4. ^ The Taxonomicon: Family Diplatyidae. Accessed 2009-06-26.
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