Species Nala lividipes (Dufour, 1820)

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Species Nala lividipes (Dufour, 1820)

Black Field Earwig

Forficula pallipes Dufour, L. 1820. Description de dix espèces nouvelles ou peu connues d'insectes recueillis en Espagne. Annales Generales des Sciences physiques 6: 307-317 [316] [junior homonym of Forficula pallipes Fabricius, 1775].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP ♂ (depository uncertain), Spain (as Hispania).
Forficula lividipes Dufour, L. 1828. Recherches anatomiques sur les labidoures ou perce-oreilles, precédées de quelques considération sur l'établissement d'un ordre partiulier pour ces insectes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 13: 337-366 4 pls [340] [nom. nov. for Forficula pallipes Dufour 1820].
Forficesila meridionalis Serville, J.G.A. 1839. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Suite à Buffon. Orthoptères. Paris : Roret 776 pp. [25].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP, Spain (as Europe méridionale, Espagne).
Forficesila castanea Serville, J.G.A. 1839. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Suite à Buffon. Orthoptères. Paris : Roret 776 pp. [26].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP ♂ (depository uncertain), unknown (as sans indication de patrie).
Forficesila vicina Lucas, H. 1849. Forficuliens. pp. 3–6 1 pl. in, Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés. Vol. 3. Paris : Imprimerie Nationale. [5].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (depository uncertain), Algeria (as d'Alger).
Echinosoma obscurum Kirby, W.F. 1900. Forficulida. pp. 12–13 in Distant, W.L. (ed.) Insecta Transvaaliensia: a contribution to a knowlege of the Entomology of South Africa. Pt 1. Orthoptera. London 24 pp. pls 1, 2. [12].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Labidura inconspicua Kirby, W.F. 1900. Forficulida. pp. 12–13 in Distant, W.L. (ed.) Insecta Transvaaliensia: a contribution to a knowlege of the Entomology of South Africa. Pt 1. Orthoptera. London 24 pp. pls 1, 2. [13].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Labidura australica Mjöberg, E. 1913. Preliminary descriptions of some new Australian Gryllids and Forficulids. Entomologisk Tidskrift 34: 26-34 [27].
Type data:
Holotype NHRM ♂, West Kimberley, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [42] (synonymy of Forficesila meridionalis, Forficesila castanea, Forficesila vicina, Echinosoma obscurum and Labidura inconspicua)
Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [287] (synonymy of Labidura australica)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western 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

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal, W plateau
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Granivore, nocturnal, omnivore, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Economic pest of agricultural crops; hosts: Beta vulgaris L. [Chenopodiaceae] (beetroot), Glycine max (L.) [Leguminoseae] (soybean), Glossipium sp. [Malvaceae] (cotton), Helianthus annuus L. [Compositae] (sunflower), Sorghum sp. [Gramminiae] (sorghum).