Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

With 35 Cretaceous outcrops yielding fossil insects, either in amber or as rock (marls,
limestones, cinerite, or dysodile) impressions-compressions (adpressions), Lebanon has …

Phasmatodea species diversity lies almost entirely within its suborder Euphasmatodea,
which exhibits a pantropical distribution and is considered to derive from a recent and rapid …

Convergent evolution is a common phenomenon, independently leading to similar
morphologies in different evolutionary lineages. Often similar functional demands drive …

Dermaptera (earwigs) are a small order of Polyneoptera, generally with a narrow and
flattened body, a pair of trademark forceps and leathery forewings, a nocturnal preference …

A new Cenomanian amber-and plant-bearing deposit has been discovered at Neau, in the
Mayenne department (France). The Cenomanian fossiliferous lignites are located in karst …

A third genus and species of fossil pygidicranid earwigs from Burmese amber is described
and figured as Stonychopygia leptocerca Engel, Huang, Thomas, and Cai, gen. et sp …

Dermaptera (earwigs) are described from the Triassic of Australia and England, and from the
Jurassic and Cretaceous of England. Phanerogramma heeri (Giebel) is transferred from …

The earwigs, Dermaptera, are a group of insects which have been present since the
Mesozoic. They have a relatively sparse fossil record, yet their life activities on and in soil or …

Two new earwigs (Dermaptera) recently discovered in mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian) amber
from Myanmar are described and figured. Astreptolabis ethirosomatia gen. et sp. n. is …