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Species Anisolabis maritima (Bonelli, 1832)

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Species Anisolabis maritima (Bonelli, 1832)

Maritime Earwig, Seaside Earwig

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, burrower, littoral, nocturnal, omnivore, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Maritime, psammophile, amongst beach debris and logs, feed on small crustacea, and eggs and larvae of flies, drowned insects, amphipods, flies, crickets, earwigs, burrow in sand, breeding in decaying seaweed.

 

General References

Bey-Bienko, G.J. 1936. Insectes Dermaptères. Faune de l'U.R.S.S NS 5: 1-239 [in Russian] [89, figs 19, 20] (description)

Boeseman, M. 1954. The Dermaptera in the Museums at Leiden and Amsterdam. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1954(21): 1-122 [37] (cosmopolitan)

Bormans, A. de 1888. Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. VII. Dermaptères. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 6: 431-448 [435] (Indonesia)

Brindle, A. 1966. The Dermaptera of Madagascar. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 221-259 [235, 236] (key, Madagascar)

Brindle, A. 1978. The Dermaptera of Africa. Part II. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique No. 8, Sciences Zoologiques 1978(225): 1-204 [126, figs 157, 265] (description, Africa)

Brindle, A. 1980. The cavernicolous fauna of Hawaiian lava tubes. 12. A new species of blind troglobitic earwig (Dermaptera: Carcinophoridae), with a revision of the related surface-living earwigs of the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Insects 21: 261-274 [265, 271, figs 10, 11, 21-23] (description, Hawaii)

Burr, M. 1910. A preliminary revision of the Labiduridae, a family of Dermaptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1910: 161-203 [176, 178] (separate species)

Burr, M. 1910. The Dermaptera (earwigs) of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 38(1760): 443-467 [448] (distribution)

Burr, M. 1911. Our British Dermaptera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 22: 225-226 1 pl. [225, fig. 2a] (male genitalia)

Burr, M. 1915. On the male genital armature of the Dermaptera. II: Psalidae. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, London 1915: 521-546 3 pls [527, 534] (male genitalia)

Caussanel, C. & Albouy, V. 1987. Biosystématique des Dermaptères de France. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France ns 23: 77-98 [80, 88, 89, fig. 3b] (description, male genitalia)

Dohrn, H. 1862. Die Dermaptera von Mexico. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 23: 225-232 [226] (Mexico)

Dohrn, H. 1864. Versuch einer Monographie der Dermapteren. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 25: 285-296 [293] (description, Mediterranean)

Haan, W. de 1842. Bijdragen tot de Kennis der Orthoptera. Dermatoptera. pp. 238–243 pl. 23 in Temminck, C.J. (ed.). Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, door de Leden der Natuurkundige commissie in Oost–Indie en andere Schrijvers. Zoologie. [240] (description, Japan, as Forficula (Forficesila) maritima)

Hebard, M. 1917. Notes on Mexican Dermaptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 43: 409-432 pl. xxviii [410] (Mexico)

Hincks, W.D. 1947. Entomological results from the Swedish expedition 1934 to Burma and British India. Dermaptera. Collected by René Malaise. Arkiv för Zoologi 39A(1): 1-43 [4] (Burma)

Hincks, W.D. 1949. The earwigs (Dermaptera) of Argentina. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 7: 623-652 [629] (Argentina)

Hincks, W.D. 1957. Dermaptera. The earwigs of South Africa. pp. 33-94 in Hanström, B., Brinck, P. & Rudebeck, G. (eds). South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950–1951. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell Vol. 4. [65, fig. 24] (key, male genitalia)

Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Orthoptera, Euplexoptera, Cursoria, et Gressoria (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). London : Longmans & Co. Vol. 1 x 501 pp. [20] (list, separate species)

Popham, E.J. & Brindle, A. 1966. Genera and species of the Dermaptera. 3. Carcinophorinae (Carcinophoridae) and Arixenidae. The Entomologist 99: 269-278 [274] (list)

Rehn, J.A.G. 1905. Notes on exotic forficulids or earwigs, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29(1432): 501-515 [506] (Japan)

Scudder, S.H. 1876. Critical and historical notes on Forficulariae; including descriptions of new generic forms and an alphabetical synonymic list of the described species. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 18: 287-332 [303] (list, variation)

Steinmann, H. 1981. A study of the circumtropical Dermaptera material in the “Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoologie”, Amsterdam. Acta Zoologica Hungarica 27: 187-210 [191, fig. 14] (description, male genitalia, India)

Zacher, F. 1911. Studien über das System der Protodermaptera. Zoologische Jahrbücher 30: 303-400 [373, figs T, U] (male genitalia)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)