Valdopteron 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

Parent taxon: Dermapteridae according to R. S. Kelly et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Brevicula, Dacryoderma, Dermapterinae, Dermapteron, Dimapteron, Jurassimedeola, Palaeodermapteron, Phanerogramma, Sinopalaeodermata, Trivenapteron, Turanoviinae

Subtaxa: Valdopteron woodi

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Type: Valdopteron woodi

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Smokejacks Brickworks (Jarzembowski collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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