Animals Kingdom (Animalia)

• Arthropods Phylum Arthropoda

• Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

• Insects (Class Insecta)

• Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

• Earwigs Order Dermaptera

• Extant Earwigs (Suborder Neodermaptera)

• Epidermapteran Earwigs( Infraorder Epidermaptera)

• Superfamily Forficuloidea

• Common Earwigs (Family Forficulidae)