Chelisoches

Chelisoches (name coming from Greek from χηλη οχεω 'pincer-carrier') is a genus of earwigs in the family Chelisochidae. Species are from the Pacific Islands. C. morio has been introduced to California and Florida.

Chelisoches
A black earwig (Chelisoches morio) on a sign in Hawaii Botanical Garden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Dermaptera
Family:
Chelisochidae
Subfamily:
Chelisochinae
Genus:
Chelisoches

Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Enkrates Burr 1907
  • Kleiduchus Burr 1911
  • Lobophora Audinet-Serville, 1838[2] (preoccupied)

Species

This genus includes the following species:

  • Chelisoches annulatus
  • Chelisoches ater (Bormans, 1900)[3]
  • Chelisoches australicus (Le Guillou, 1841)
  • Chelisoches handschini Günther, 1934
  • Chelisoches kimberleyensis Mjöberg, 1913
  • Chelisoches morio (Fabricius, 1775)

Names brought to synonymy
  • Chelisoches elegans De Bormans, 1900, a synonym for Euenkrates elegans (De Bormans, 1900) [Srivastava 1976].

References
  1. Scudder 1876: Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 18, 295
  2. Audinet-Serville, Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Othopteres. (1839), p.32
  3. Quelques Dermaptères du Musée civique de Gênes. A Bormans, Annali del Musco Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 1900


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