Species Cranopygia daemeli (Dohrn, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pygidicrana daemeli Dohrn 1869. Zwei neue Dermapteren aus Nordaustralien. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 30: 233-234 [233].

  Type data:

   Holotype STM ♀, Cape York, QLD (as Cape York Australiae borealis).
• Pygidicrana ambigua Mjöberg, E. 1913. Preliminary descriptions of some new Australian Gryllids and Forficulids. Entomologisk Tidskrift 34: 26-34 [26].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM 5 specimens (Hincks, W.D. 1959. A Systematic Monograph of the Dermaptera of the World based on material in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Pygidicranidae excluding Diplatyinae. London : British Museum (Natural History) x 218 pp. [70] reference to a type not considered sufficient for lectotype designation, as specimen not identified), Noonkanbah, Broome, West-Kimberley, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hincks, W.D. 1959. A Systematic Monograph of the Dermaptera of the World, based on material in the British Museum (Natural History). Pygidicranidae excluding Diplatyinae. London : British Museum (Natural History) Part 2 x 218 pp. [69]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, predator, terrestrial, under bark.

 

General References

Boeseman, M. 1954. The Dermaptera in the Museums at Leiden and Amsterdam. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1954(21): 1-122 [13] (Java)

Bormans, A. de 1900. Forficulidae. Das Tierreich 11: 1-129 [20, fig. 12] (description, habitus)

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [19, pl. 1 fig. 2] (list, habitus, misidentification of Cranopygia ophthalmica (Dohrn, 1863))

Giles, E.T. 1970. Dermaptera (Earwigs). pp. 306-313 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Carlton : Melbourne University Press 1029 pp. [312, fig. 19.18A] (habitus)

Hincks, W.D. 1955. New species of Pygidicraninae Earwigs (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 806-827 (possible misidentification)

Hincks, W.D. 1959. A Systematic Monograph of the Dermaptera of the World, based on material in the British Museum (Natural History). Pygidicranidae excluding Diplatyinae. London : British Museum (Natural History) Part 2 x 218 pp. [70]

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. [6] (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 [2] (description, female)

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 [328] (list)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)