Haplodiplatys is a genus of Asian earwigs erected by Walter Douglas Hincks in 1955.[1] It is the only member of the monotypic family Haplodiplatyidae, with many species originally placed in the genus Diplatys;[2] a key to them was prepared by Alan Brindle.[3]

Haplodiplatys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Suborder: Neodermaptera
Infraorder: Protodermaptera
Superfamily: Pygidicranoidea
Family: Haplodiplatyidae
Engel, 2017
Genus: Haplodiplatys
Hincks, 1955

Species edit

The Dermaptera Species File[4] lists:

  1. Haplodiplatys basilewskyi (Brindle, 1966)
  2. Haplodiplatys bhowmiki (Srivastava & Saha, 1975)
  3. Haplodiplatys bhutanensis (Brindle, 1975)
  4. Haplodiplatys bidentatus (Hincks, 1955)
  5. Haplodiplatys bilobus Bey-Bienko, 1959
  6. Haplodiplatys brancuccii Srivastava, 1983
  7. Haplodiplatys chinensis (Hincks, 1955)
  8. Haplodiplatys convexiusculus Brindle, 1984
  9. Haplodiplatys crightoni Ross & Engel, 2013
  10. Haplodiplatys darwini Bey-Bienko, 1959
  11. Haplodiplatys fengyangensis (Wenbao, 1985)
  12. Haplodiplatys flavens (Hincks, 1955)
  13. Haplodiplatys glenis (Kapoor, 1968)
  14. Haplodiplatys hamatus (Brindle, 1972)
  15. Haplodiplatys hincksi Steinmann, 1974
  16. Haplodiplatys jansoni (Kirby, 1891)
  17. Haplodiplatys kivuensis (Hincks, 1951)
  18. Haplodiplatys malaisei (Hincks, 1947)
  19. Haplodiplatys niger Hincks, 1955 - type species
  20. Haplodiplatys olsufiewi (Borelli, 1932)
  21. Haplodiplatys orientalis Steinmann, 1974
  22. Haplodiplatys rileyi (Hincks, 1955)
  23. Haplodiplatys rufescens (Kirby, 1896)
  24. Haplodiplatys ruwenzoricus (Hincks, 1955)
  25. Haplodiplatys schawalleri Brindle, 1987
  26. Haplodiplatys severus (de Bormans, 1893)
  27. Haplodiplatys simlaensis (Kapoor, 1968)
  28. Haplodiplatys siva (Burr, 1904)
  29. Haplodiplatys srivastavai (Kapoor, 1974)
  30. Haplodiplatys stemmleri (Brindle, 1975)
  31. Haplodiplatys tibetanus (Hincks, 1955)
  32. Haplodiplatys tonkinensis (Hincks, 1955)
  33. Haplodiplatys transversalis (Brindle, 1983)
  34. Haplodiplatys triangulatus Brindle, 1987
  35. Haplodiplatys urbanii (Brindle, 1975)
  36. Haplodiplatys viator (Burr, 1904)

References edit

  1. ^ Hincks WD (1955) A systematic monograph of the Dermaptera of the world based on material in the British Museum (Natural History). 1. Pygidicranidae Subfamily Diplatyinae. British Museum (Natural History), 132 pp.
  2. ^ Engel MS (2017) In: Engel MS, Huang D, Thomas JC, Cai C. A new genus and species of pygidicranid earwigs from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Asia (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae). Cretaceous Research 69: 179.
  3. ^ Brindle A (1984) Entomologist's mon. Mag. 120: 151-154.
  4. ^ Dermaptera Species File: genus Haplodiplatys Hincks, 1955 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 16 September 2022)

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