Purex (earwig)

Purex
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Family: Spongiphoridae
Subfamily: Spongiphorinae
Genus: Purex
Purex, 1911

Purex is a genus of earwigs in the family Spongiphoridae; most records are from the Americas, mostly South America. There are around 14 described species in Purex.

Species

The Dermaptera Species File lists:

  1. Purex brunneri (de Bormans, 1903)
  2. Purex divergens (Burr, 1899)
  3. Purex eminens Steinmann, 1989
  4. Purex esquivelae Brindle, 1968
  5. Purex formosus Hebard, 1920
  6. Purex frontalis (Dohrn, 1864)
  7. Purex parvicollis (Stål, 1860)
  8. Purex propinquus (Burr, 1911)
  9. Purex pulchellus Brindle, 1977
  10. Purex remotus (Burr, 1899)
  11. Purex sinuatus Brindle, 1971
  12. Purex staudingeri Brindle, 1971
  13. Purex surinamensis Brindle, 1971
  14. Purex versicolor (de Bormans, 1883)

References

  1. ↑ "Purex". CoL. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  2. ↑ "Purex". GBIF. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  3. ↑ Hopkins, H. (2025). "Purex Burr, 1911". Dermaptera Species File. (Via TaxonWorks). Retrieved 2025-03-10.

Further reading

  • Steinmann, H. (1989). Spencer, K. A. (ed.). World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Series Entomologica. Vol. 43. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7923-0096-0.
  • Jarvis, Karl J.; Haas, Fabian; Whiting, Michael F. (2005). "Phylogeny of earwigs (Insecta: Dermaptera) based on molecular and morphological evidence: reconsidering the classification of Dermaptera". Systematic Entomology. 30 (3): 442–453. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00276.x. S2CID 85718043.