Dimapteron corami Kelly et al. 2018 (earwig)

Insecta - Dermaptera - Dermapteridae

Full reference: R. S. Kelly, A. J. Ross, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2018. Earwigs (Dermaptera) from the Mesozoic of England and Australia, described from isolated tegmina, including the first species to be named from the Triassic. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:129-143

Belongs to Dimapteron according to R. S. Kelly et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMUK I.15008/In.59187, a tegmen. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Corbula Beds, Swanage (Burnett collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal siliciclastic in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Corbula Beds, Swanage (Burnett collection)

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