Species Paralabella murrayi (Kirby, 1900)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Labia murrayi 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].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Christmas Is.
• Labia indistincta 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. [144].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Christmas Is.
• Labia incerta 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. [144].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Christmas Is.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112. [57] (synonymy of Labia indistincta and Labia incerta)
• Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [585] (synonymy of Labia incerta)

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Christmas Is.

Ecological Descriptors

Nocturnal, omnivore, predator, terrestrial.

General References

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. [26] (list)

Popham, E.J. & Brindle, A. 1967. Genera and species of the Dermaptera. 5. Spongiphorinae and Labiinae. The Entomologist 100: 255-262 [259] (list)

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] (list)

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. [4872, 5144, 5182] (literature, habitus, morphology, synonymy)

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] (list)

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

Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [585] (catalogue)

Steinmann, H. 1990. Dermaptera. Eudermaptera I. Das Tierreich 106: xviii 1-558 [493, figs 911, 912] (description, genitalia)

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