Family Labiidae - Little Earwigs

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Works Cited

Fellow Buggers, Lend Me Your Ear - Vostox brunneipennis - female

Pretty, for an Earwig - Vostox brunneipennis - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Dermaptera (Earwigs)

Family Labiidae (Little Earwigs)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Many sources consider Spongiphoridae to be the correct name. The name Labiidae has been preserved over the older name Isolabellidae by an official ruling of the International Committee on Zoological Nomenclature, which has the final say on scientific names for animals.

Numbers

8-10 spp. in 4-5 genera north of Mexico(1)(Haas 2009):

subfam. Labiinae: Labia (1 sp.), Paralabella (2 spp.), Spirolabia (1 sp.)

subfam. Spongiphorinae: Marava (3 spp.), Vostox (3 spp.)

(taxomy may vary depending on source; Paralabella spp. are sometimes included in Labia, and Marava, in the Labiinae)

Works Cited

1.	The Order Dermaptera (Earwigs) in Florida and the United States, by P. M. Choate (modified from Hoffman, 1987)

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 17 July, 2007 - 8:29pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, v belov
Last updated 24 December, 2009 - 10:46am

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