Diplatyidae
Family of earwigs
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Diplatyidae is a family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera.[2][3] It contains three subfamilies,[2][4] and four genera incertae sedis, one modern and three extinct known from fossils.
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| Tytthodiplatys mecynocercus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Dermaptera |
| Suborder: | Neodermaptera |
| Infraorder: | Protodermaptera |
| Superfamily: | Pygidicranoidea |
| Family: | Diplatyidae Verhoeff, 1902[1] |
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Taxonomy
Subfamilies and genera as listed at the Dermaptera species file:[2]
- subfamily Cylindrogastrinae Maccagno, 1929
- Cylindrogaster Stal, 1855
Diplatyinae
Authority: Verhoeff, 1902
- Circodiplatys Steinmann, 1986
- Diplatyella Gorokhov & Anisyutkin, 1994
- Diplatys Audinet-Serville, 1831
- Eudiplatys Steinmann, 1986
- Mesodiplatys Steinmann, 1986
- Nannopygia Dohrn, 1862
- Paradiplatys Zacher, 1910
Diplatymorphinae
Authority: V Boeseman, 1954
- Diplatymorpha Boeseman, 1954
Genera incertae sedis
- †Acanthodiplatys Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018: monotypic A. leptocercus Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018
- †Hirtidiplatys Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018: monotypic H. cardiophyllus Ren, Zhang, Shih & Ren, 2018
- Songmaella Gorokhov & Anisyutkin, 1994: monotypic S. princeps Gorokhov & Anisyutkin, 1994
- †Tytthodiplatys Engel, 2011
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.[3]