Species Spirolabia pilicornis (Motschulsky, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Forfiscelia pilicornis 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 [2].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMM ♀, Nuwara-Eliya, Sri Lanka (as montagnes de Nura-Ellia, Ceylan).
• Labia rogenhoferi 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 Some hitherto unpublished descriptions of new species, by the late Mr.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 [238].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHMW ♂, Équateur, Zaire (as Equateur).
• Labia minor Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. 1914. On the Orthoptera found on the Florida Keys and in extreme southern Florida. 2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 66: 373-412 [373] [junior homonym of Forficula minor Linnaeus, 1758].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Florida.
• Labia rehni Hebard, M. 1917. Notes on the earwigs (Dermaptera) of North America, north of the Mexican boundary. Entomological News 28: 311-323 [317] [nom. nov. for Labia minor Rehn & Hebard, 1914].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brindle, A. 1985. Synonymical notes on the American species of Labia Leach (Dermaptera, Labiidae) with a key to species and description of a new species. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 121: 73-80 [74]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: 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), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), 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
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Nocturnal, omnivore, predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

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

Brindle, A. 1971. A revision of the Labiidae (Dermaptera) of the Neo-tropical and Nearctic Regions. II. Geracinae and Labiinae. Journal of Natural History 5: 155-182 [174, fig. 15] (male forceps)

Brindle, A. 1971. The Dermaptera of Ceylon. Report No. 10, Lund University Ceylon Expedition in 1962. Entomologica Scandinavica Suppl. 1: 208-236 47 figs [226, fig. 30] (male forceps)

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 224, 225, 229] (description)

Burr, M. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Dermaptera. London : Taylor & Francis xviii 217 pp. 10 pls. [40] (description)

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

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

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 [99]

Steinmann, H. 1987. Two new genera and species for the subfamily Labiinae (Dermaptera: Labiidae). Acta Zoologica Hungarica 33(1–2): 177-186 [182, figs 13-15] (description)

Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [574] (catalogue)

Steinmann, H. 1990. Dermaptera. Eudermaptera I. Das Tierreich 106: xviii 1-558 [509, figs 944-946 (description, male genitalia); <5020> [492] (synonymy, literature, habitus, morphology)

 

History of changes

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