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Haplodiplatys crightoni Ross & Engel 2013

  • 1. Museo Universitario de Historia Natural " Dr. Manuel M. Villada " Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico (UAEMex), Inst. Literario 100, Colonia Centro, Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico, C. P. 50000 & Entomological Research, Metepec, Estado Mexico, Mexico. C. P. 52140
  • 2. Entomological Research, Metepec, Estado Mexico, Mexico. C. P. 52140 & Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad and Conservación (CIByC), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM), Morelos, Mexico
  • 3. Entomological Research, Metepec, Estado Mexico, Mexico. C. P. 52140 & Instituto de Biología-Jardín Botánico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, P. C. 04510, Coyoacán, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico & Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Carretera a Ciudad Victoria km 145, C. P. 67700, Linares, Nuevo León, México
  • 4. Albert-Schweitzer-Str 4, 24119 Kronshagen, Germany

Description

Haplodiplatys crightoni Ross & Engel, 2013

Haplodiplatys crightoni Ross & Engel 2013: 159; Fig. 1–6 (D ♀) [Mexican amber from Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico] [Early to Middle Miocene]. Ross et al. 2016: 48; Fig. 6 [Holotype]. Engel et al. 2017: 180.

Type material. Holotype complete ♀ adult, included in Mexican amber (NMS). Type locality and horizon. Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico. Early to Middle Miocene.

Notes

Published as part of Estrada-Álvarez, Julio Cesar, Núñez-Bazán, Reinier, Luna, Manuel De & Haas, Fabian, 2025, Taxonomic catalogue of the earwigs (Insecta: Dermaptera) of Mexico, with two new nomina dubia, pp. 201-246 in Zootaxa 5701 (3) on page 231, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5701.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17326062

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMS
Scientific name authorship
Ross & Engel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Dermaptera
Family
Haplodiplatyidae
Genus
Haplodiplatys
Species
crightoni
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Haplodiplatys crightoni Ross, 2013 sec. Estrada-Álvarez, Núñez-Bazán, Luna & Haas, 2025

References

  • Ross, A. J. & Engel, M. S. (2013) The first diplatyid earwig in tertiary amber (Dermaptera: Diplatyidae): A new species from Miocene Mexican amber. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 44, 157-166. https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-44032096
  • Ross, A. J., Mellish, C. J. T., Crighton, B. & York, P. V. (2016) A catalogue of the collections of Mexican amber at the Natural History Museum, London and National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana, 68 (1), 45-55. https://doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2016v68n1a7
  • Engel, M. S., Huang, D., Thomas, J. C. & Cai, C. (2017) A new genus and species of pygidicranid earwigs from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Asia (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae). Cretaceous Research, 69, 178-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2016.09.009