Species Paralabella curvicauda (Motschulsky, 1863)
- Forficesila curvicauda 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 [3].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMM ♂ ♀ specimens (depository uncertain), Nuwara-Eliya, Sri Lanka (as des montagnes de Nura-Ellia, Ceylan). - Forficesila dilaticauda 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 [3].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ (lost), Nuwara-Eliya, Sri Lanka (as des montagnes de Nura-Ellia, Ceylan). - Platylabia guineensis Dohrn, H. 1867. Neue und bisher nicht genügend bekannte Forficularia. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 28: 343-349 [348].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Principe Is. (as insula Principis). - Platylabia dimidiata Dohrn, H. 1867. Neue und bisher nicht genügend bekannte Forficularia. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 28: 343-349 [348].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB ♂, Luzon, Philippines (as boreali insulae Luzon). - Labia flavicollis Bormans, A. de in Burr, M. 1903. Notes on the Forficularia. VII. Some hitherto unpublished descriptions of new species, by the late Mr. Auguste de Bormans. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 11: 231-241, 265-270 [235].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP ♂, Samoa (as Iles Samoa). - Platylabia camerunensis Borg, H. 1904. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Insektenfauna von Kamerun. No. 25. Forficuliden aus Kamerun. Arkiv för Zoologi 1: 563-580 1 pl. [570].
Type data:
Holotype NHRM ♂, Cameroon. - Labia rechingeri Holdhaus, K. 1909. Kritisches Verzeichnis der bisher von den Sãomainseln bekannten Orthopteren. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 84: 537-562 [541].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NHMW ♂ 2♀, Upolu, Samoa.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [56] (synonymy of Forficesila curvicauda, Forficesila dilatacauda, Platylabia guineensis, Platylabia dimidiata, Labia flavicollis, Platylabia camerunensis and Labia rechingeri; also, synonymy of Forficula pygmaea Fabricius, 1793 and Platylabia bihastata Borg, 1904; not followed in this work)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Palaearctic Region, circumtropical.
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]
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. [4819, 5140, 5170] (literature, synonymy, morphology)
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)
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
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