Opisthocosmiinae

Opisthocosmiinae
Opisthocosmia sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Dermaptera
Suborder:	Neodermaptera
Infraorder:	Epidermaptera
Superfamily:	Forficuloidea
Family:	Forficulidae
Subfamily:	Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902

Opisthocosmiinae is a subfamily of earwigs in the family Forficulidae. There are more than 100 described species in Opisthocosmiinae, recorded especially from Asia and the Americas. ^{[1] [2]}

Timomenus komarowi

Genera

These 18 genera belong to the subfamily Opisthocosmiinae:

• Acanthocordax Günther, 1929
• Chaetocosmia Nishikawa, 1973
• Cipex Burr, 1910
• Cordax Burr, 1910
• Eparchus Burr, 1907
• Eutimomena Bey-Bienko, 1970
• Hypurgus Burr, 1907
• Neoopisthocosmia Steinmann, 1990
• Opisthocosmia Dohrn, 1865
• Parasondax Srivastava, 1978
• Parasyntonus Steinmann, 1990
• Paratimomenus Steinmann, 1974
• Pareparchus Burr, 1911
• Prosadiya Hebard, 1923
• Sondax Burr, 1910
• Spinosocordax Steinmann, 1988
• Syntonus Burr, 1910
• Timomenus Burr, 1907

References

1. Lesley, S.D. (2018). "subfamily Opisthocosmiinae Verhoeff, 1902". Dermaptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
2. Engel, Michael S.; Haas, Fabian (2007). "Family-Group Names for Earwigs (Dermaptera)". American Museum Novitates (3567). American Museum of Natural History: 1. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2007)539[1:FNFED]2.0.CO;2. hdl: 2246/5858 . S2CID   85642033.

Further reading

• Jarvis, Karl J.; Haas, Fabian; Whiting, Michael F. (2005). "Phylogeny of earwigs (Insecta: Dermaptera) based on molecular and morphological evidence: reconsidering the classification of Dermaptera". Systematic Entomology. 30 (3): 442–453. Bibcode:2005SysEn..30..442J. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00276.x. ISSN   0307-6970. S2CID   85718043.
• Steinmann, H. (1989). Spencer, K. A. (ed.). World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Series Entomologica. Vol. 43. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN   978-0-7923-0096-0.

External links

• Media related to Opisthocosmiinae at Wikimedia Commons