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Labidura Riparia 070819
''Labidura'' is a genus of earwigs in the family Labiduridae. Probably the earliest specimen of ''Labidura'' was found in Eocene amber. Among the ''Labidura'' species, ''Labidura riparia'' is Cosmopolitan (biology), cosmopolitan, but the Saint Helena earwig (''Labidura herculeana'') was List of largest insects, the largest of all earwigs before its possible extinction after the year of 1967. Species The genus contains the following species: * ''Labidura cryptera'' Liu, 1946 * ''Labidura dharchulensis'' Gangola, 1968 * ''Labidura elegans'' Liu, 1946 * ''Labidura japonica'' (Haan, 1842) * ''Labidura minor'' Boeseman, 1954 * ''Labidura orientalis'' Steinmann, 1979 * ''Labidura riparia'' (Pallas, 1773) * ''Labidura xanthopus'' (Stal, 1855) * ''Labidura herculeana'' (Fabricius, 1798) References * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q17627410 Forficulina Dermaptera genera Taxa named by William Elford Leach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''Ēṓs'', 'Eos, Dawn') and (''kainós'', "new") and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch.See: *Letter from William Whewell to Charles Lyell dated 31 January 1831 in: * From p. 55: "The period next antecedent we shall call Eocene, from ήως, aurora, and χαινος, recens, because the extremely small proportion of living species contained in these strata, indicates what may be considered the first commencement, or ''dawn'', of the existing state of the animate creation." The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the Eocene is marked by a brief period in which the concentration of the carbon isoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labidura Cryptera
''Labidura cryptera'' is an extant species of striped earwig from the genus '' Labidura'' of the family Labiduridae. The species is commonly known as the "cryptic earwig" due to its elusive behavior and preference for damp, hidden, shelter. Description ''Labidura cryptera'' can be identified by its elongated, flattened body. Adults can grow to 10 to 25 millimeters in length. The body of ''Labidura cryptera'' is bilaterally symmetrical and it sports a pair of membranous wings beneath its forewings. Individuals have black stripes that run the length of their body with a dark pattern on the back edge of the forewings. Like all earwigs, ''Labidura cryptera'' has a pair of pincers or cerci of the back of the abdomen. Range ''Labidura cryptera'' is found in small regions of China in very specific habitats. Ecology The earwig prefers dark, moist environments under some sort of cover or shelter in the daytime. It is a primarily nocturnal insect doing most of its activity under the cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forficulina
Neodermaptera, sometimes called Catadermaptera,BioLib.cz suborder Catadermaptera Steinmann, 1986 (retrieved 16 September 2022) is a suborder of earwigs in the order Dermaptera. There are more than 2,000 described species in Neodermaptera. The former suborders Forficulina, Hemimerina, and Arixeniina have been reduced in rank to family and placed into the new suborder Neodermaptera. Neodermaptera now contains all the extant species of Dermaptera, while the extinct species make up the suborders Archidermaptera and Eodermaptera. Families ''BioLib'' includes seven superfamilies, with the ''Dermaptera Species File''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labidura Xanthopus
''Labidura'' is a genus of earwigs in the family Labiduridae. Probably the earliest specimen of ''Labidura'' was found in Eocene amber. Among the ''Labidura'' species, ''Labidura riparia'' is cosmopolitan, but the Saint Helena earwig (''Labidura herculeana'') was the largest of all earwigs before its possible extinction after the year of 1967. Species The genus contains the following species: * ''Labidura cryptera'' Liu, 1946 * '' Labidura dharchulensis'' Gangola, 1968 * '' Labidura elegans'' Liu, 1946 * '' Labidura japonica'' (Haan, 1842) * '' Labidura minor'' Boeseman, 1954 * '' Labidura orientalis'' Steinmann, 1979 * ''Labidura riparia'' (Pallas, 1773) * '' Labidura xanthopus'' (Stal, 1855) * ''Labidura herculeana The Saint Helena earwig or Saint Helena giant earwig (''Labidura herculeana'') is an extinct species of very large earwig endemic to the oceanic island of Saint Helena in the south Atlantic Ocean. Description Growing as large as long (includi ...'' (Fabriciu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Largest Insects
Insects, which are a type of arthropod, are the most numerous group of multicellular organisms on the planet, with over a million species identified so far. The title of heaviest insect in the world has many contenders, the most frequently crowned of which is the larval stage of the Goliathus, goliath beetle, ''Goliathus goliatus'', the maximum size of which is at least and . The highest confirmed weight of an adult insect is for a gravid female giant weta, ''Deinacrida heteracantha'', although it is likely that one of the elephant beetles, ''Megasoma elephas'' and ''Megasoma actaeon'', or Goliathus, goliath beetles, both of which can commonly exceed and , can reach a greater weight. The longest insects are the stick insects, see below. Representatives of the extinct dragonfly-like Order (biology), order Meganisoptera (also known as griffinflies) such as the Carboniferous ''Meganeura monyi'' and the Permian ''Meganeuropsis permiana'' are the largest insect species ever known. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quaternary
The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), as well as the current and most recent of the twelve periods of the Phanerozoic eon. It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The Quaternary Period is divided into two epochs: the Pleistocene (2.58 million years ago to 11.7 thousand years ago) and the Holocene (11.7 thousand years ago to today); a proposed third epoch, the Anthropocene, was rejected in 2024 by IUGS, the governing body of the ICS. The Quaternary is typically defined by the Quaternary glaciation, the cyclic growth and decay of continental ice sheets related to the Milankovitch cycles and the associated climate and environmental changes that they caused. Research history In 1759 Giovanni Arduino proposed that the geological strata of northern Italy could be divided into four succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labidura Herculeana
The Saint Helena earwig or Saint Helena giant earwig (''Labidura herculeana'') is an extinct species of very large earwig endemic to the oceanic island of Saint Helena in the south Atlantic Ocean. Description Growing as large as long (including forceps), the Saint Helena earwig was the world's largest earwig. It was shiny black with reddish legs, short elytra and no hind wings. Distribution and ecology The earwig was endemic to Saint Helena, being found on the Horse Point Plain, Prosperous Bay Plain, and the Eastern Arid Area of the island. It was known to have lived in plain areas, gumwood forests and seabird colonies in rocky places. The earwig inhabited deep burrows, coming out only at night following rain. Dave Clark of the London Zoo said that "the females make extremely good mothers". Known from subfossils remains, Saint Helena giant hoopoe could have been a predator of this earwig. History The Saint Helena earwig was first discovered by Danish entomologist Johan Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
