Hemimeridae

Hemimeridae

Hemimerus hanseni from the Manual of Entomology.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Dermaptera
Suborder:	Hemimerina
Family:	Hemimeridae
Genera ^[1]^[2]^[3]
Hemimerus Araeomerus

Hemimeridae is a family of earwigs, the only family in the suborder Hemimerina, one of the four suborders in the order Dermaptera. The other three suborders are Archidermaptera, which is extinct, Arixeniina, and Forficulina, the largest of the four. Hemimeridae is represented by two genera, Hemimerus and Araeomerus.^[4] They are wingless, blind and viviparous ectoparasites of African rodents, and have filiform segmented cerci. The most well known species is Hemimerus bouvieri.

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Extant Dermaptera families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera

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Protodermaptera

Karschielloidea	Karschiellidae

Pygidicranoidea	Diplatyidae Pygidicranidae

Epidermaptera

Forficuloidea	Arixeniidae Chelisochidae (black earwigs) Forficulidae (common earwig, short-winged earwig and relatives) Labiidae (little earwigs)

Labiduroidea	Labiduridae (striped earwigs)

Anisolabidoidea	Anisolabididae

Apachyoidea	Apachyidae

Hemimeroidea	Hemimeridae

Obsolete classification: Arixeniidae in suborder Arixeniina; Hemimeridae in suborder Hemimerina; the other 9 families in suborder Forficulina.

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