Anisolabididae is a family of
earwig
Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera. With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic cerci, a pair of forcep-like pincers on their abdomen, and membranous wings folde ...
s, in the suborder
Forficulina
Neodermaptera, sometimes called Catadermaptera,[BioLib.cz]
suborder Catadermaptera Steinmann, 1986 (retrieved 16 Se ...
and the order
Dermaptera
Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera. With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic cerci, a pair of forcep-like pincers on their abdomen, and membranous wings folded ...
. It is one of nine families in the suborder Forficulina, and contains thirty-eight genera spread across thirteen subfamilies.
Subfamilies
The family contains the following subfamilies:
*
Anisolabidinae (contains 25 genera, cited by both Srivastava and Chen & Ma.
Steinmann
in 1986, 1989, 1990, and 1993 classified the genera under the subfamilies Carcinophorinae and Gonolabiinae, which are synonyms of Anisolabidinae.
Other synonyms include Placolabidinae and Titanolabiinae. The genera in this subfamily are ''
Aborolabis,
Anisolabella,
Anisolabis,
Apolabis,
Capralabis,
Carcinophora,
Epilabis,
Epilandex,
Euborellia,
Flexiolabis,
Foramenolabis,
Gonolabis,
Mongolabis,
Placolabis,
Gonolabina,
Gonolabis,
Heterolabis,
Indolabis,
Metalabis,
Neolabis,
Ornatolabis,
Paraflexiolabis,
Thekalabis,
Titanolabis'', and ''
Zacheria'')
*
Anophthalmolabiinae (contains one genus, ''
Anophthalmolabis'', cited by both Steinmann and Srivastava
)
*
Antisolabiinae (contains one genus, ''
Antisolabis'', cited by both Steinmann and Srivastava
)
*
Brachylabinae (contains three genera: ''
Brachylabis'', ''
Ctenisolabis'', ''
Metisolabis''. ''Ctenisolabis'' and ''Metisolabis'' were cited by both Steinmann and Srivastava,
while ''Brachylabis'' was cited by Steinmann, Srivastava, and Chen & Ma
)
*
Idolopsalinae (contains one genus, ''
Idolopsalis'', cited by both Steinmann and Srivastava
)
*
Isolabiinae (contains four genera: ''
Africolabis'', ''
Geracodes'', ''
Isolabis'', and ''
Pterolabis'', cited only by Steinmann
)
*
Parisolabiinae (contains two genera, ''
Parisolabis'' and ''
Parisopsalis.'' They were cited by both Steinmann and Srivastava
)
*
Platylabiinae (contains one genus, ''
Platylabia'', cited by Steinmann, Srivastava, and Chen & Ma
)
Incertae sedis:
The genus †''
Toxolabis'' was described in 2014 from a single fossil male recovered from
Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...
. The single species ''T. zigrasi'' matches that of Anisolabididae members. Due to the quality of the preservation, the describing authors were not able to be determine a more specific placement within the family.
''
Kotejalabis,
Cretolabia'' and ''
Cratoborellia'' are known from the Aptian aged
Crato Formation
The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin. It is an important Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) for palaeontologists. The strata were laid down mostly during ...
of Brazil.
References
External links
The Earwig Research Centre's Anisolabididae database''Instructions:'' type Anisolabididae in the "family" field and click "search".
A drawing of the species ''Titanolabis colossea''
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Dermaptera families