Eodermaptera
| Eodermaptera Temporal range:
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| Belloderma arcuata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Dermaptera |
| Suborder: | †Eodermaptera Engel, 2003 |
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Eodermaptera is an extinct suborder of earwigs known from the Middle Jurassic to Mid Cretaceous. Defining characteristics include "
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]
Systematics
- Family Bellodermatidae Zhao, Shih & Ren, 2010
- †Daohugou, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian)
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- †Archaeosoma Zhang 1994 Laiyang Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
- Superfamily Semenovioloidea Vishnyakova 1980
- Family Turanodermatidae Engel 2003
- †Turanoderma Vishnyakova 1980 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Middle-Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian)
- Family Semenoviolidae Vishnyakova 1980
- †Semenovioloides Vishnyakova 1980 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian
- †Aglyptoderma Xiong et al, 2021 Jiulongshan Formation, China, Callovian[3]
- Family Turanodermatidae Engel 2003
References
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