[4] Like other extinct species of earwig, little is known about how A. speciosus was discovered due to the ambiguity of the reports about it, and the fact that only one fossil of it was ever found.

[3] The reason for this is that the environment that most earwigs live in often prevents preservation, because dead organisms in soil and other crevices quickly rot and dissolve away.

[3] Unlike its relative Archidermapteron martynovi, Asiodiplatys speciosus had cerci, or rear appendages similar to antennae, that were less than the length of their abdomen.

[6] One of the key characteristics of the Forficulina suborder is the existence of large, thick, basally broadened and crenulate-toothed forceps, which is notably absent on A. speciosus.

[3] According to Willmann, the genus Asiodiplatys, and therefore also the species A. speciosus, existed longer ago than the genera Dermapteron and Turanovia, but around the same time period as Archidermapteron, Microdiplatys, and Protodiplatys.