Species Cranopygia ophthalmica (Dohrn, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pygidicrana ophthalmica Dohrn, H. 1863. Versuch einer Monographie der Dermapteren. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 24: 35-66 [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype STM ♂, Moreton Bay, QLD.
• Pygidicrana finschi Karsch, F. 1885. Pygidicrana finschi nov. spec., eine neue Forficulidae Nordaustraliens. Entomologische Nachrichten. Berlin 11: 322-323 [322].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♀, Somerset, QLD.
• Pygidicrana atriceps Kirby, W.F. 1903. Notes on Forficulidae, with descriptions of new species in the collection of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 11: 60-68 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Rockhampton, QLD.

 

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. [66-67]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Melanesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, predator, terrestrial, under bark.

 

General References

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 [433] (list)

Bormans, A. de 1894. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine, 61. Dermaptères (2nd partie). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 34: 371-409 [375] (list)

Bormans, A. de 1900. Forficulidae. Das Tierreich 11: 1-129 [20, 22] (description, separate species)

Burr, M. 1908. Notes on the Forficularia. XIV. A revision of the Pygidicraninae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 382-392 [385, 391] (species key, key, descriptions)

Burr, M. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Dermaptera. London : Taylor & Francis xviii 217 pp. 10 pls. [65, 66, fig. 16] (key, description, habitus)

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [19, 20, pl. 1 fig. 2, 5, 7] (description, habitus, pretarsus)

Burr, M. 1915. On the male genital armature of the Dermaptera. I: Protodermaptera (except Psalidae). Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, London 1915: 413-447 5 pls [435, pl. 6 fig. 14] (male genitalia, misidentification as Dicrana daemeli (Dohrn, 1869))

Dohrn, H. 1867. Neue und bisher nicht genügend bekannte Forficularia. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 28: 343-349 [344] (diagnosis)

Hebard, M. 1933. Notes on Australasian and Melanesian Dermaptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 145-156 [145] (QLD, misidentification as Dicrana daemeli (Dohrn, 1869))

Hincks, W.D. 1955. New species of Pygidicraninae Earwigs (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 806-827 [812] (identity, misidentification as Dicrana daemeli (Dohrn, 1869), type specimens)

Sakai, S. 1971. Dermapterorum Catalogus Praeliminaris. III: Pygidicranidae. Tokyo : Daito Bunka University 68 pp. [17] (checklist)

Sakai, S. 1985. Dermapterorum Catalogus. XVI–XVIII: Iconographia: Explicatio Series: I–III. A Basic Survey for Integrated Taxonomy of the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Ikegami Book Co. 697 pp. [230] (literature, synonymy)

Sakai, S. 1985. Dermapterorum Catalogus. XVI–XVIII: Iconographia I–III. A Basic Survey for Integrated Taxonomy of the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Ikegami Book Co. pp. 698-1080. [700, 755] (habitus, male genitalia)

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)

Steinmann, H. 1979. The Dermaptera in the PAN Zoologiczny Instytut, Warszawa. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 32: 149-175 [151] (type)

Steinmann, H. 1986. Dermaptera, Part I: Catadermaptera (I): Pygidicranidae. Das Tierreich 102: xiv 1-336 [243, figs 360, 261] (description, male genitalia)

Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [133] (catalogue)

 

History of changes

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