Diplatyidae is a family of

earwig Earwigs make up the insect order (biology), order Dermaptera. With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic cercus, cerci, a pair of forceps-like pincer (biology), pincers on ...

s in the suborder

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. It contains three subfamilies,The Taxonomicon: Family Diplatyidae
Accessed 2009-06-26. and four genera ''

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'', one modern and three extinct known from fossils.

Taxonomy

Subfamilies and genera as listed at the Dermaptera species file:The Dermaptera Species file Diplatyidae entry
accessed 16 Sept 2022 ;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 ''
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''

# †'' 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 Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ...

which dates to the Albian age of the

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...

. It was not placed into the subfamily Diplatyinae, and is the oldest confirmed member of the family.

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