| Labidura Temporal range: Eocene-Quaternary | |
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| Labidura riparia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Dermaptera |
| Family: | Labiduridae |
| Subfamily: | Labidurinae |
| Genus: | Labidura Leach, 1815 |
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Labidura is a genus of earwigs in the family Labiduridae. Probably the earliest specimen of Labidura was found in Eocene amber. Among the Labidura species, Labidura riparia is cosmopolitan, but the Saint Helena earwig (Labidura herculeana) was the largest of all earwigs before its possible extinction after the year of 1967.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
- Labidura cryptera Liu, 1946
- Labidura dharchulensis Gangola, 1968
- Labidura elegans Liu, 1946
- Labidura japonica (Haan, 1842)
- Labidura minor Boeseman, 1954
- Labidura orientalis Steinmann, 1979
- Labidura riparia (Pallas, 1773)
- Labidura xanthopus (Stal, 1855)
- †Labidura herculeana (Fabricius, 1798)
References
- ^ "genus Labidura Leach, 1815". Dermaptera Species File. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- M. Burr. 1911. Dermaptera (earwigs) preserved in amber, from Prussia. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Zoology 11:145-150
- "Labidura". St Helena and Ascension Island Natural History. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
- Matt Walker (2014-11-17). "World's largest earwig is declared extinct". BBC Earth. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01. Retrieved 2017-05-16.
