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Species Euborellia annulipes (Lucas, 1847)

Ring-legged Earwig

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan, possibly accidentally introduced to 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: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, litter, omnivore, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Scavenger, lawns, under stones, amongst debris, in compost heaps or dung, occassional feeder on stored products and pest in greenhouses, detritivore, parental care and social behaviour,.

 

General References

Bey-Bienko, G.J. 1936. Insectes Dermaptères. Faune de l'U.R.S.S NS 5: 1-239 [in Russian] [24] (as Anisolabis (Euborellia) annulipes)

Bey-Bienko, G.J. 1959. Results of the Chinese Soviet zoological-botanical expeditions of 1955–1957 to south-western China. Dermaptera of Szechwan and Yunnan. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 38: 590-627 [in Russian; translation in Entomol. Rev. 38: 529–563] [607]

Bharadwaj, R.K. 1966. Observation of the bionomics of Euborellia annulipes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 59(3): 441-450 (ecology)

Boeseman, M. 1954. The Dermaptera in the Museums at Leiden and Amsterdam. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1954(21): 1-122 [36] (distribution)

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] (Oriental region)

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 [378] (list)

Bormans, A. de 1900. Forficulidae. Das Tierreich 11: 1-129 [48] (description)

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

Brindle, A. 1971. The Dermaptera of Ceylon. Report No. 10, Lund University Ceylon Expedition in 1962. Entomologica Scandinavica Suppl. 1: 208-236 47 figs [220] (Sri Lanka)

Brindle, A. 1972. Insects of Micronesia: Dermaptera. Insects of Micronesia 5: 97-171 [125, figs 3b, 6e] (description)

Brindle, A. 1976. The Dermaptera of New Caledonia. Pacific Insects 17: 61-86 [66] (New Caledonia, Loyalty Ils)

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 [173, figs 298, 313] (description)

Burr, M. 1897. British Orthoptera (earwigs, grasshoppers and crickets). Notes and additions. Huddersfield : The Economic and Educational Museum 68 pp. 6 pls. [14] (description)

Burr, M. 1905. Earwigs of the Indian Museum, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1: 27-31 [28] (India)

Burr, M. 1906. A further note on earwigs (Dermaptera) in the Indian Museum, with a description of a new species. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ns 2: 381-390 [388]

Burr, M. 1907. A third note on the earwigs (Dermaptera) in the Indian Museum, with the description of a new species. Records of the Indian Museum 1: 207-210 [209]

Burr, M. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Dermaptera. London : Taylor & Francis xviii 217 pp. 10 pls. [84, fig. 24] (habitus)

Burr, M. 1912. Die Dermapteren des K.K. naturhistorischen Hofsmuseums in Wien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 26: 63-108 [76] (distribution)

Dubrony, A. 1878. Liste des Orthoptères recueillis jusqu'ici en Ligurie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 12: 5-25 [5] (list)

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

Hincks, W.D. 1948. Preliminary notes on Mauritian earwigs (Dermaptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 14: 517-540 [521]

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. [66] (South Africa)

Hoffman, K.M. 1987. Earwigs (Dermaptera) of South Carolina, with a key to the eastern North American species and a checklist of the North American Fauna. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 89: 1-14 [8] (description, biology, USA)

Kaltenbach, A. 1968. Ergebnisse der osterreichischen Neukaledonien-Expedition, 1965. Part 1 (Mantodea, Saltatoria (Exclus. Gryllodea) and Dermaptera). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 72: 539-556 [554] (New Caledonia)

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. [19, 21] (list, separate species)

Nishikawa, M. 1969. Notes on the Carcinophoridae of Japan and the Ryukyus (Dermaptera: Carcinophoridae). Kontyû 37: 41-55 [52, figs 19, 20] (male genitalia)

Popham, E.J. & Brindle, A. 1966. Genera and species of the Dermaptera. 3. Carcinophorinae (Carcinophoridae) and Arixenidae. The Entomologist 99: 269-278 [272] (list)

Sakai, S. 1970. Dermapterorum Catalogus Praeliminaris. I. Labiduridae, and Carcinophoridae. Tokyo : Daito Bunka University 49 pp. and 91 pp. [63] (list)

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. [1707, 1760] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonymy of Anisolabis eteronoma Borelli, 1909 and Anisolabis aporonoma Borelli, 1909; first synonymy of Forficula equestris not established, listing in catalogues, <0287> [262] and <5004> [1760] followed by [302])

Srivastava, G.K. 1976. Catalogue on Oriental Dermaptera. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 2: 1-94 [25] (cosmopolitan)

Steinmann, H. 1977. A study on the higher taxa of Carcinophoridae (Dermaptera). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 69: 89-99 [95] (list)

Steinmann, H. 1978. Zoogeographical dispersity of Carcinophoridae. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift ns 25: 173-189 [185] (list)

Steinmann, H. 1979. A revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Anisolabis Fieber, 1853 (Dermaptera, Carcinophoridae). Reichenbachia 17: 57-69 [62] (Italy)

Steinmann, H. 1981. A study of the circumtropical Dermaptera material in the “Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoologie”, Amsterdam. Acta Zoologica Hungarica 27: 187-210 [194, figs 22, 23] (male genitalia)

Steinmann, H. 1989. Dermaptera. Catadermaptera II. Das Tierreich 105: xix 1-504 [251, figs 410, 411] (description, male genitalia)

Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [262] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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)