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Species Paralabella curvicauda (Motschulsky, 1863)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Palaearctic Region, circumtropical.


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, SA, Vic: 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • South Australia: S Gulfs
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Nocturnal, omnivore, predator, terrestrial, under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Under bark of trees and fallen logs, in layers of rotten banana stems, in leaf crown of certain species, in decaying apex of palm leaves (India).

 

General References

Boeseman, M. 1954. The Dermaptera in the Museums at Leiden and Amsterdam. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1954(21): 1-122 [77] (Indonesia, Java)

Bormans, A. de 1900. Forficulidae. Das Tierreich 11: 1-129 [70]

Brindle, A. 1966. The Dermaptera of Madagascar. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 221-259 [245] (Madagascar)

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

Brindle, A. 1973. The Dermaptera of Africa. I. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique No. 8, Sciences Zoologique 1973(205): 1-335 [171, figs 222, 223, 227] (description)

Burr, M. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Dermaptera. London : Taylor & Francis xviii 217 pp. 10 pls. [118, fig. 38] (habitus)

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [56] (synonymy)

Hudson, L. 1973. A systematic revision of the New Zealand Dermaptera. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 3: 219-254 [249, figs 15, 47, 65] (description)

Kirby, W.F. 1900. Orthoptera. pp. 141-153 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [143]

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. [21]

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. 1917. Studies in West Indian Earwigs (Dermaptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37: 635-651 [640]

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 [96] (catalogue, Nearctic and Neotropical Regions)

Sakai, S. 1982. A new proposed classification of the Dermaptera with special reference to the check-list of the Dermaptera of the World. Bulletin of Daito Bunka University. Tokyo 20: 1-108 [41]

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. [4820] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonymy of Mimolabia boninensis Matsumura, 1914)

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. [4819, 5140, 5170] (literature, synonymy, morphology)

Srivastava, G.K. 1976. Catalogue on Oriental Dermaptera. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 2: 1-94 [32]

Steinmann, H. 1976. A study of the higher taxa of the Labiidae (Dermaptera). Zoologischer Anzeiger 197: 401-418 [415] (list)

Steinmann, H. 1979. A survey of the zoogeography of Labiidae (Dermaptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 26: 275-298 [291] (distribution)

Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [578] (catalogue)

Steinmann, H. 1990. Dermaptera. Eudermaptera I. Das Tierreich 106: xviii 1-558 [497, figs 920-922] (description, forceps, male genitalia)

 

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)