Chelisoficula, Nel & Waller & Albouy & Menier & Plöeg, 2003

Nel, André, Waller, Alain, Albouy, Vincent, Menier, Jean-Jacques & Plöeg, Gaël De, 2003, New fossil earwigs from the lowermost Eocene amber of Paris basin (France) (Insecta, Dermaptera, family incertae sedis), Geodiversitas 25 (1), pp. 119-129 : 120-121

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4665054

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03838780-F074-FFED-FCDA-136AC58453FA

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scientific name

Chelisoficula
status

gen. nov.

Genus Chelisoficula n. gen.

TYPE SPECIES. — Chelisoficula caussaneli n. gen., n. sp. ETYMOLOGY. — The generic name is an artificial combination of Chelisoches and Forficula , giving the name Chelisoficula . This is allowing, if necessary, the possibility to erect in the future a new family with this name. DIAGNOSIS. — This genus has a unique combination of characters: second tarsal segments strongly extending below the third, from which they are deeply separated;

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tarsal claws strong and separated by a large arolium; apex of cercus strongly curved and making an angle of 90° with the inner margin of the cercus; structure of the female cerci very particular, with numerous spines composed of long and strong setae, in the centre of tubercles (autapomorphy, unique character among the Dermaptera ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Dermaptera

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