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Forficula auricularia

Insecta - Dermaptera - Forficulidae

Taxonomy
Forficula auricularia was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Forficula auricularia Linnaeus p. 423
1761Forficula auricularia Linnaeus p. 234
1763Forficula auricularia Scopoli p. 103 fig. 312
1767Forficula auricularia Linnaeus p. 686
1775Forficula auricularia Fabricius p. 269
1920Forficula auricularia Lesne

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Haplocercata
orderDermaptera
—PandermapteraEngel
—ApodermapteraEngel
suborderNeodermaptera
infraorderEpidermaptera
—Eteodermaptera
—Eudermaptera()
superfamilyForficuloidea
familyForficulidae
subfamilyForficulinae
genusForficula
speciesauricularia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Forficula auricularia Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Calabrian to the top of the Ionian or 1.80000 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Calabrian - Ionian1.8 - 0.129United Kingdom (Durham) Forficula auricularia (140489)