Eodermaptera is an extinct suborder of earwigs known from the Middle Jurassic to Mid Cretaceous. Defining characteristics include "tarsi three-segmented, tegmina retain venation, 8th and 9th abdominal tergite in females are narrowed, but separate from 10th tergite and not covered by 7th tergite and exposed ovipositor"[1] They are considered to be more closely related to Neodermaptera than the more basal Archidermaptera.[2]
^Zhao J, Zhao Y, Shih C, Ren D, Wang Y (November 2010). "Transitional fossil earwigs--a missing link in Dermaptera evolution". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10 (1): 344. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-344. PMC 2993717. PMID 21062504.
^Engel MS, Peris D, Chatzimanolis S, Delclòs X (2015-05-30). "An earwig (Insecta: Dermaptera) in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 46 (3): 291–300. doi:10.1163/1876312X-45032121. ISSN 1399-560X.
Eodermaptera is an extinct suborder of earwigs known from the Middle Jurassic to Mid Cretaceous. Defining characteristics include "tarsi three-segmented...
specimen fossils are placed with extinct suborders Archidermaptera or Eodermaptera, the former dating to the Late Triassic and the latter to the Middle...
while the extinct species make up the suborders Archidermaptera and Eodermaptera. BioLib includes seven superfamilies, with the Dermaptera Species File...
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