Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An old and disused group of insects; in De Geer's system, one of three groups (the others being Hemiptera and Coleoptera) of his Vaginata.
- The earwigs, Forficulidæ, as an order of Insecta: now usually called Euplexoptera (which see). Kirby. Also Dermatoptera.
Wiktionary
- n. A taxonomic order within the subdivision Polyneoptera — the earwigs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) See dermoptera, dermopteran.
WordNet 3.0
- n. earwigs and a few related forms
Examples
“Earwigs = Dermaptera, most adults around 1 or 2 cm.”
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“Euorthoptera: the Orthoptera excluding the Dermaptera.”
“Involucrum alarum in Dermaptera a flap of the metanotum.”
“It presumably arose from a nineteenth-century confusion of the hemelytra of the Hemiptera, with the short tegmina, the covering fore-wings of the Dermaptera, that protect their hind wings when they are not in flight.”
“Dermaptera and Hemiptera are not even closely related.”
“* Earwigs (Dermaptera) are not Hemiptera, as Browne classed them.”
“Earwigs is the common name given to the insect order Dermaptera characterized by membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings (hence the literal name of the order - "skin wings").”
“Examples include freshwater crustaceans (Phreatoicidea, Paramelitidae and the unique, cave-dwelling Spelaeogrypus lepidops); harvestmen (the endemic Triaenonychidae); flies (Pachybates, Trichantha, and Peringueyomina); Megaloptera, Dermaptera, bugs of the tribe Cephalelini, caddisflies (Trichoptera) and various beetles, notable stagbeetles (Lucanidae) of the genus Colophon.”
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