Species Marava arachidis (Yersin, 1860)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Forficula arachidis Yersin, A. 1860. Note sur quelques Orthoptères nouveaux ou peu connus d'Europe. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 8: 509-537 [509].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 2♂ 2♀, Marsielle, France.
• Forfiscelia nigripennis Motschulsky, V. von 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'îIle Ceylan. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3): 1-153 [1].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMM, Nuwara-Eliya, Sri Lanka (as montagnes de Nura-Ellia, Ceylan).
• Forficula wallacei Dohrn, H. 1865. Versuch einer Monographie der Dermapteren. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 26: 68-99 [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♀ (depository uncertain), New Guinea (as Nova Guinea).
• Forficula (Apterygida) gravidula Gerstaecker, A. 1869. Beitrag zur Insektenfauna von Zanzibar. No. 2. Orthoptera and Neuroptera. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 25: 201-223 [221].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♀, Mombasa, Kenya (as Mombas).
• Labia brunnea Scudder, S.H. 1876. A century of Orthoptera. Decade VI. Forficulariae (North America). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 18: 257-264 [264].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂, Cuba.
• Labia grandis Dubrony, A. 1879. Enumération des Orthoptères rapportés per M.M.J. Doria, O. Beccari, et L.M. d'Albertis des régions Indienne et Austro-Malaise. I. Dermaptères. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 14: 348-383 [366].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG ♂ ♀ specimens, Somerset, QLD.
• Prolabia ascensionis Hebard, M. 1917. Dermapterological notes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 69: 231-250 [243].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ ♀, Ascension Island.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [57] (synonymy of Forfiscelia nigripennis and Forficula (Apterygida) gravidula)
• Steinmann, H. 1983. The survey of the Dermaptera material in the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden. Part II. Eudermaptera. Reichenbachia 21: 45-59 [49] (synonymy of Forficula wallacei)
• Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [496] (synonymy of Labia brunnea, Labia grandis and Prolabia ascensionis)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan, very commonly collected in sea ports.

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

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, nocturnal, omnivore, predator, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Ovoviviparous, maternal care, commonly associated with unhygienic conditions, found in stored grains.

 

General References

Bey-Bienko, G.J. 1936. Insectes Dermaptères. Faune de l'U.R.S.S NS 5: 1-239 [in Russian] [112, fig. 32] (description)

Boeseman, M. 1954. The Dermaptera in the Museums at Leiden and Amsterdam. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1954(21): 1-122 [83]

Bormans, A. de 1900. Forficulidae. Das Tierreich 11: 1-129 [65, 72] (list, separate species)

Brindle, A. 1966. The Dermaptera of Madagascar. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 221-259 [247] (Madagascar)

Brindle, A. 1967. The Dermaptera of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, II. Arkiv för Zoologi 2 20(7): 147-163 [159]

Brindle, A. 1970. A revision of the Labiidae (Dermaptera) of the Neo-tropical and Nearctic Regions. Journal of Natural History 5: 521-568 [553, figs 230-232] (male genitalia)

Brindle, A. 1971. The Dermaptera of Ceylon. Report No. 10, Lund University Ceylon Expedition in 1962. Entomologica Scandinavica Suppl. 1: 208-236 47 figs [229]

Brindle, A. 1976. The Dermaptera of New Hebrides. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 17(13): 221-238 [234, figs 20-21]

Burr, M. 1902. The earwigs of Ceylon. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14: 59-78, 316-336 pls A, B [330]

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [55, 57, 58] (separate species)

Burr, M. 1911. Vorläufige Revision der Labiiden. Deutsche Entomologische National-Bibliothek 2: 58-65 [53, 60, pl. 5 fig. 3] (description)

Burr, M. 1914. Notes on the Forficularia. XXI. Progress in Dermaptera in 1912 and 1913. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 577-586 [583]

Dubrony, A. 1879. Enumération des Orthoptères rapportés per M.M.J. Doria, O. Beccari, et L.M. d'Albertis des régions Indienne et Austro-Malaise. I. Dermaptères. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 14: 348-383 [364]

Hebard, M. 1917. Dermapterological notes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 69: 231-250 [243]

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

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. [44, 45] (list, separate species)

Ramamurthi, B.N. 1956. Notes on Marava arachidis (Yersin) (Labiidae: Dermaptera). Indian Journal of Entomology 18: 146-148 [146]

Rehn, J.A.G. 1905. Notes on exotic forficulids or earwigs, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29(1432): 501-515 [507, 513]

Sakai, S. 1992. Dermapterorum Catalogus. XXIV: Iconographia VIII. A Basic Survey for Integrated Taxonomy of the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Ikegami Book Co. Vol. XXIV pp. iv 3930-4690. [4338, 4632] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Labia brunnea as junior synonym of Marava unidentate (Beauvois), Labia nigroflavida Rehn, 1905 and Strongylopsalis mathurinii Ribeiro, 1931, as junior synonyms of Marava arachidis)

Sakai, S. 1992. Dermapterorum Catalogus. XXIV: Iconographia VIII. A Basic Survey for Integrated Taxonomy of the Dermaptera of the World. Tokyo : Ikegami Book Co. Vol. XXIV pp. iv 3930-4690. [4356, 4519, 4630] (synonymy, literature, habitus, morphology)

Srivastava, G.K. 1976. Catalogue on Oriental Dermaptera. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 2: 1-94 [29] (catalogue, cosmopolitan)

Steinmann, H. 1976. A study of the higher taxa of the Labiidae (Dermaptera). Zoologischer Anzeiger 197: 401-418 [413]

Steinmann, H. 1979. A survey of the zoogeography of Labiidae (Dermaptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 26: 275-298 [287] (distribution)

Steinmann, H. 1990. Dermaptera. Eudermaptera I. Das Tierreich 106: xviii 1-558 [453, figs 835-837] (description, male genitalia, forceps)

Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.McE. 1983. A monograph of the orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Memoirs. Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory 13(1): 1-679 [60]

Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Order Dermaptera. pp. 197–212 in, Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 2. Apterygota to Thysanoptera. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press. [204, fig. 114]

 

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