Genus Cranopygia Burr, 1908

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• Cranopygia Burr, M. 1908. Notes on the Forficularia. XIV. A revision of the Pygidicraninae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 382-392 [389].

  Type species:

   Pygidicrana cumingi Dohrn, 1863 by original designation.
• Kalocrania Zacher, F. 1910. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pygidicraniden und Diplatyiden (Dermaptera). Entomologische Rundschau 27: 105 [105].

  Type species:

   Pygidicrana marmoricrura Serville, 1838 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hincks, W.D. 1955. New species of Pygidicraninae Earwigs (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 806-827 [809]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Melanesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Oriental Region

Distribution References

General References

Brindle, A. 1970. The Dermaptera of the Solomon Islands. Pacific Insects 12: 641-700 [647] (description)

Burr, M. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Dermaptera. London : Taylor & Francis xviii 217 pp. 10 pls. [61] (description)

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [19] (description)

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. [52] (description)

Popham, E.J. 1965. A key to Dermapteran subfamilies. The Entomologist 98: 126-136 [132] (key)

Steinmann, H. 1975. Suprageneric classification of Dermaptera. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungariae 21: 195-220 [202] (key)

Steinmann, H. 1986. Dermaptera, Part I: Catadermaptera (I): Pygidicranidae. Das Tierreich 102: xiv 1-336 [239] (description)

Townes, H.K. 1945. A list of the generic and subgeneric names of Dermaptera, with their genotypes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 38: 343-356 [346] (list)

 

History of changes

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