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Labiduridae
Sign in to saveLabiduridae, whose members are known commonly as striped earwigs, is a relatively large family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDermaptera
- FamilyLabiduridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 56
- With media
- 19
- Family
- Labiduridae
- Collections
- MHNCA, UMNH, UCM, UCSB, MNA
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Saudi Arabia
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Labiduridae, whose members are known commonly as striped earwigs, is a relatively large family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera.
==Taxonomy== The family contains a total of approximately 72 species, spread across seven genera in three subfamilies. Some well-known members of the family include Labidura riparia, commonly known as the tawny earwig, and Gonolabidura meteor. The family is mostly cosmopolitan, so it can be found around the world. At least two species have been described from middle Cretaceous aged Burmese amber, Myrrholabia and Zigrasolabis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Labiduridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.