Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Labia minor (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Species Labia minor (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.


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

ACT, NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, crepuscular, gregarious, nocturnal, omnivore, predator, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Scavenger, under stones, often active amongst decaying organic material, dung-heaps, compost, rubbish-tips.

 

General References

Bey-Bienko, G.J. 1936. Insectes Dermaptères. Faune de l'U.R.S.S NS 5: 1-239 [in Russian] [110, fig. 31] (description)

Boeseman, M. 1954. The Dermaptera in the Museums at Leiden and Amsterdam. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1954(21): 1-122 [76]

Borelli, A. 1923. Dermaptères du Congo belge. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 11: 412-434 [424] (Afrotropical Region)

Bormans, A. de 1900. Forficulidae. Das Tierreich 11: 1-129 [66] (description)

Brindle, A. 1966. The Dermaptera of Madagascar. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 221-259 [244]

Brindle, A. 1968. The Dermaptera of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm. III. Arkiv för Zoologi 20(25): 533-552 [538]

Brindle, A. 1969. The Dermaptera of the Azores and Madeira. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 21(103): 5-24 [10]

Brindle, A. 1971. A revision of the Labiidae (Dermaptera) of the Neo-tropical and Nearctic Regions. II. Geracinae and Labiinae. Journal of Natural History 5: 155-182 [174, fig. 13] (description)

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [55, pl. 5 fig. 7a-c] (list, habitus)

Hebard, M. 1933. Notes on Australasian and Melanesian Dermaptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 145-156 [150] (QLD)

Hincks, W.D. 1953. Liste Préliminaire des Dermaptères de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar E 4: 361-382 [374] (Madagascar)

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. [79]

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 [9] (habits)

Menozzi, C. 1928. Dermaptères du Congo Belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 16: 29-32 [31] (Afrotropical Region)

Rehn, J.A.G. 1922. Contributions to our knowledge of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of the Transvaal and Natal. Part I. Dermaptera and Blattidae. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 9: 1-99 [5] (South Africa)

Reichardt, H. 1970. Catalogue of New World Dermaptera (Insecta). Part III: Labioidea, Labiidae. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. São Paulo 23(10): 83-109 [98] (catalogue)

Sakai, S. 1970. Dermapterorum Catalogus Praeliminaris. II: A Basic Survey for Numerical Taxonomy of the Labiidae, the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Daito Bunka University Vol. II 177 pp. [115] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Sakai, S. 1993. Dermapterorum Catalogus. XXV: Iconographia IX. A Basic Survey for Integrated Taxonomy of the Labiidae, the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Ikegami Book Co. Vol. XXV pp. i 4691-5285. [4739] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonymy of Forficula livida Zschach, 1788, Labia media Marsham, 1802 and Labia minuta Scudder, 1862)

Sakai, S. 1993. Dermapterorum Catalogus. XXV: Iconographia IX. A Basic Survey for Integrated Taxonomy of the Labiidae, the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Ikegami Book Co. Vol. XXV pp. i 4691-5285. [4736, 5140, 5165, 5178] (synonymy, literature, habitus, male genitalia, distribution)

Srivastava, G.K. 1976. Catalogue on Oriental Dermaptera. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 2: 1-94 [33]

Steinmann, H. 1976. A study of the higher taxa of the Labiidae (Dermaptera). Zoologischer Anzeiger 197: 401-418 [416]

Steinmann, H. 1979. A survey of the zoogeography of Labiidae (Dermaptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 26: 275-298 [292] (biogeography)

Steinmann, H. 1983. The survey of the Dermaptera material in the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden. Part II. Eudermaptera. Reichenbachia 21: 45-59 [49]

Steinmann, H. 1990. Dermaptera. Eudermaptera I. Das Tierreich 106: xviii 1-558 [468, figs 862-864] (description)

 

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)