Where does “鋏虫目” come from?

鋏虫目 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 鋏虫, from Japanese 鋏, from Japanese 鋏む — cut off.

鋏虫目 (Japanese): Dermaptera

Definitions

鋏虫目 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Japanese	鋏虫	earwig
2	Japanese	鋏	a scissors; pincers or claws as found on a crab,...
3	Japanese	鋏む	cut off

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Japanese	目	an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
2	Middle Chinese	目	—