Species Nesogaster ruficeps (Erichson, 1842)

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Species Nesogaster ruficeps (Erichson, 1842)

Apterygida ruficeps Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [246] [junior homonym of Forficula ruficeps Burmeister, 1838].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB ♂, TAS (as Vandiemensland).
Apterygida erichsoni Dohrn, H. 1862. Die Dermaptera von Mexico. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 23: 225-232 [231] [nom. nov. for Apterygida ruficeps Erichson, 1842].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Bormans, A. de 1883. Étude sur quelques forficulides exotiques du Musée Royal d'Histoire naturelle de Bruxelles. pp. LXVIII–LXXIV in, Comptes-rendus des séances de la société entomologique de Belgique: Assemblée mensuelle du 1e mai 1880. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 27: LVIII-LXXXIII [LXXIV]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
- South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
- Tasmania
- Victoria: SE coastal
- Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Nocturnal, omnivore, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Boeseman, M. 1954. The Dermaptera in the Museums at Leiden and Amsterdam. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1954(21): 1-122 [63] (synonymy)

Bormans, A. de 1900. Forficulidae. Das Tierreich 11: 1-129 [118] (description, synonymy)

Brindle, A. 1971. A review of the genus Nesogaster Verhoeff (Dermaptera, Labiidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 107: 114-126 [125, fig. 16] (description, synonymy)

Burr, M. 1908. Notes on the Forficularia. X. A revision of the Nesogasterinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 1: 42-47 [46] (diagnosis, synonymy)

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [49] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Forficula oceanica Le Guillou, 1841 as junior synonym of Apterygida ruficeps Erichson, 1842)

Burr, M. 1911. Notes on the Forficularia. XVIII. More new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 8: 39-50 [49] (list, synonymy, Australia, Fiji)

Hebard, M. 1933. Notes on Australasian and Melanesian Dermaptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 145-156 [148] (description, under bark;)

Kirby, W.F. 1896. Descriptions of new species of Forficulidae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), S. Kensington. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 25: 520-529 [529, pl. XX fig. 11, 529] (habitus, synonymy)

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. [45] (list, synonymy)

Mjöberg, E. 1924. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 36. Dermaptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 16: 1-11 pl. 2 [7] (QLD)

Sakai, S. 1991. Dermapterorum Catalogus. XXIII: Iconographia VIII. A Basic Survey for Integrated Taxonomy of the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Ikegami Book Co. Vol. XXIII pp. 3218-3929. [pagination not sequential] [3325, 3763, 3808] (synonymy, literature, morphology, habitus)

Srivastava, G.K. 1984. Notes on some Dermaptera present in "Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen". Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India 5: 7-17 [13, figs 13, 14] (description)

Steinmann, H. 1976. A study of the higher taxa of the Labiidae (Dermaptera). Zoologischer Anzeiger 197: 401-418 [403] (list)

Steinmann, H. 1979. A survey of the zoogeography of Labiidae (Dermaptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 26: 275-298 [277] (list)

Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [409] (catalogue, synonymy)

Steinmann, H. 1990. Dermaptera. Eudermaptera I. Das Tierreich 106: xviii 1-558 [27, figs 33-35] (description, male genitalia)

Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xi 560 pp. 43 pls. [112] (TAS)