Biology:Arixeniidae
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Short description: Family of earwigs
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| Hairy Earwig, Arixenia esau | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Dermaptera |
| Suborder: | Neodermaptera |
| Infraorder: | Epidermaptera |
| Superfamily: | Forficuloidea |
| Family: | Arixeniidae Jordan, 1909 |
Arixeniidae is a family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera. Arixeniidae was formerly considered a suborder, Arixeniina, but was reduced in rank to family and included in the new suborder Neodermaptera.[1][2]
Arixeniidae is represented by two genera, Arixenia and Xeniaria, with a total of five species.[3] Arixenia esau and Xeniaria jacobsoni are the most well-known. As with Hemimerina, they are blind, wingless ectoparasites with filiform segmented cerci. They are ectoparasites of various Southeast Asian bats, particularly of the genus Cheiromeles (i.e., "naked bulldog bats").
Genera
The family includes the following genera:[3]
References
- ↑ Engel, Michael S. (2003). "The earwigs of Kansas, with a key to genera north of Mexico (Insecta: Dermaptera)". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 106 (3): 115–123. doi:10.1660/0022-8443(2003)106[0115:TEOKWA2.0.CO;2].
- ↑ Engel, Michael S.; Haas, Fabian (2007). "Family-Group Names for Earwigs (Dermaptera)". American Museum Novitates (American Museum of Natural History) (3567): 1. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2007)539[1:FNFED2.0.CO;2]. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5858.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lesley, S.D. (2018). "family Hemimeridae Sharp, 1895". http://Dermaptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1180277. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
External links
- An example specimen of the species Arixenia esau from the Tree of Life (note that the species is incorrectly labeled)
- An example of a female Arixenia esau from the Australian National Insect Collection
Wikidata ☰ Q1938308 entry
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