Earwigs = Dermaptera, most adults around 1 or 2 cm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives] Reference

Dermaptera and Hemiptera are not even closely related.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

Euorthoptera: the Orthoptera excluding the Dermaptera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Involucrum alarum in Dermaptera a flap of the metanotum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

It presumably arose from a nineteenth-century confusion of the hemelytra of the Hemiptera, with the short tegmina, the covering fore-wings of the Dermaptera, that protect their hind wings when they are not in flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

Earwigs is the common name given to the insect order Dermaptera characterized by membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings (hence the literal name of the order - "skin wings").    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

Examples include freshwater crustaceans (Phreatoicidea, Paramelitidae and the unique, cave-dwelling Spelaeogrypus lepidops); harvestmen (the endemic Triaenonychidae); flies (Pachybates, Trichantha, and Peringueyomina); Megaloptera, Dermaptera, bugs of the tribe Cephalelini, caddisflies (Trichoptera) and various beetles, notable stagbeetles (Lucanidae) of the genus Colophon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference