Species Carcinophora occidentalis (Kirby, 1896)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anisolabis occidentalis 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 [525].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀, Cape Leeuwin, WA.
• Gonolabis michaelseni Burr, M. 1908. Dermaptera. 69-80 pl. 1 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Südwest-Australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Jena : G. Fischer Bd 2 Lfg 5. [73].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ specimens, Geraldton; Eradu, Greenough River; Obelisk Hill, Fremantle; and Collie, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [249]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, coastal, predator, terrestrial, under bark, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Under bark of karri, under stones.

 

General References

Burr, M. 1908. Dermaptera. 69-80 pl. 1 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Südwest-Australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Jena : G. Fischer Bd 2 Lfg 5. [71, pl. 1 fig. 3] (description)

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [29] (list)

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 [528] (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)

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 [3] (variation, Carnac Ils)

Sakai, S. 1970. Dermapterorum Catalogus Praeliminaris. I. Labiduridae, and Carcinophoridae. Tokyo : Daito Bunka University 49 pp. and 91 pp. [51, 71] (separate species)

Sakai, S. 1987. Dermapterorum Catalogus. XIX–XX: Iconographia IVa. A Basic Survey for Integrated Taxonomy of the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Ikegami Book Co. Vol. XIX pp. ii 2278-2647. [2306, 2611] (habitus, male genitalia)

Sakai, S. 1987. Dermapterorum Catalogus. XIX–XX: Iconographia V. A Basic Survey for Integrated Taxonomy of the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Ikegami Book Co. Vol. XX pp. 1380-2277. [2215] (synonymy, literature)

Steinmann, H. 1977. A study on the higher taxa of Carcinophoridae (Dermaptera). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 69: 89-99 [91] (list)

Steinmann, H. 1978. Zoogeographical dispersity of Carcinophoridae. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift ns 25: 173-189 [182] (list)

Steinmann, H. 1984. Synopsis of Dermaptera of the World. Part 4: Family Carcinophoridae (I.). Entomologische Abhandlungen. Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 48(7): 63-82 [70] (list)

Steinmann, H. 1989. Dermaptera. Catadermaptera II. Das Tierreich 105: xix 1-504 [57, figs 74-76] (description, synonymy)

 

History of changes

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