Forficulidae

family of earwigs
Taxon taxon Q1931619
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Summary

Forficulidae is a taxon[1]. Forficulidae ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (426 views/month, #1,620 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Forficuloidea[4]
  • Taxon name: Forficulidae[5]
  • Commons category: Forficulidae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Forficulidae[7]
  • Taxon common name: bredfotsaksedyr[8], strigalice[9]

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Identifiers

Forficulidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 49528[10]. Forficulidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 27437[11]. Forficulidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 410[12]. Forficulidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7861[13]. Forficulidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 102456[14].

Why It Matters

Forficulidae has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] Forficulidae is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [11] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre. Retrieved . artsdatabanken.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . urbanatura.si. Retrieved . urbanatura.si. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Insects (insecta) of the world id → 950927
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  2. 17d ago · MSGJ · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'be', 'ceb', 'co', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'it', 'ja', 'ko',
    Sitelink count → 25
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  3. 9w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i47480
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02275772-n
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  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → taxon
    Parent taxon → Forficuloidea
    Topic's main category → Category:Forficulidae
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007545857205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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