Diplatyidae

Diplatyidae is a family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera. It contains three subfamilies, and four genera incertae sedis, one modern and three extinct known from fossils.

Taxonomy

Subfamilies and genera as listed at the Dermaptera species file:

subfamily Cylindrogastrinae Maccagno, 1929

1. Cylindrogaster <small>Stal, 1855</small>

Diplatyinae

Authority: Verhoeff, 1902

1. Circodiplatys <small>Steinmann, 1986</small>
2. Diplatyella <small>Gorokhov & Anisyutkin, 1994</small>
3. Diplatys <small>Audinet-Serville, 1831</small>
4. Eudiplatys <small>Steinmann, 1986</small>
5. Mesodiplatys <small>Steinmann, 1986</small>
6. Nannopygia <small>Dohrn, 1862</small>
7. Paradiplatys <small>Zacher, 1910</small>

Diplatymorphinae

Authority: V Boeseman, 1954

1. Diplatymorpha <small>Boeseman, 1954</small>

Genera incertae sedis

1. †Acanthodiplatys <small>Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018</small>: monotypic A. leptocercus <small>Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018</small>
2. †Hirtidiplatys <small>Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018</small>: monotypic H. cardiophyllus <small>Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018</small>
3. Songmaella <small>Gorokhov & Anisyutkin, 1994</small>: monotypic S. princeps <small>Gorokhov & Anisyutkin, 1994</small>
4. †Tytthodiplatys <small>Engel, 2011</small>

The genus Tytthodiplatys was described in 2011 from a fossil found in Burmese amber which dates to the Albian age of the Cretaceous. It was not placed into the subfamily Diplatyinae, and is the oldest confirmed member of the family.

References

External links

• The Earwig Research Centre's Diplatyidae database Source for references: type Diplatyidae in the "family" field and click "search".