NOMEN: Dermaptera De Geer 1773: 399 [C. De Geer. Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes. T.3.  Stockholm, De l'Impr. de L.L. Grefing, 1773]

δερμα (skin) - πτερον (wing) (Kirby & Spense 1826: vol.14: 369)

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (De Geer 1773): (Raptoriae + Spectra) (= Mantis) + Saltatoria (= Locusta +  Acrydium + Gryllus) + Neoblattariae (= Blatta) + Dermatoptera (= Forficula)

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS: 

= Ulonata Fabricius 1775
= Hemiptera Retzius 1783 (non Hemiptera Linneaus 1758)

= Deratoptera Clairville 1798

TYPIFIED NAMES(S): Gryllus/f=Forficula/g (sine Termes; incl. Blatta, Phasma)
TYPIFIED NAME IN USE: Grylloides

MODERN STATUS: the oldest name of a non-accepted taxon.

COMMENT: The name "Dermaptera" with authorship "De Geer 1773" is often wrongly used for Dermatoptera Burmeister 1838.

NOMEN: Dermaptera Retzius 1783 [A.J. Retzius. Genera et species insectorum. – Lipsiae, 1783]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Retzius 1783): Cimex + Nepa

SENIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM: 
= Coleopterohymenoptera Schaeffer 1766

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS: 
= Heteroptera Latreille 1810  
= Styrelytra Rafinesque 1815

= Heterata Billberg 1820 
= Frontirostria Zetterstedt 1828 
= Coridaria Haeckel 1896

= Heteropterida Pearce 1936

TYPIFIED NAMES(S): Cimex/f=Notonecta/g
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Cimicida, Cimicina

MODERN STATUS: non-valid, junior homonym of Dermaptera De Geer 1773; the valid name is Heteroptera Latreille 1810; belongs to a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.