List of Dermapterans of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions of the world. There are about 2 million species of arthropods found in the world, and still is counting.
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The following list provides the earwigs currently identified from Sri Lanka.
Earwig
The exact diversity and their biology is well studied within Sri Lanka due to major contributions by Malcolm Burr in 1901 and Alan Brindle in 1977. According to a checklist by Steinmann in 1989, 71 species of earwigs may be found in Sri Lanka, [1] distributed between 11 families and 21 genera.[2][3]
Family Anisolabididae
- Anisolabis greeni
- Anisolabis kelangi
- Anisolabis kudagae
- Epilandex burri
- Euborellia annulipes
- Euborellia stali
- Gonolabis electa
- Geracodes brincki
- Platylabia major
Family Apachyidae
- Dendroiketes corticinus
Family Apataniidae
- Apsilochorema diffine
Family Chelisochidae
Family Diplatyidae
- Diplatys fletcheri
- Diplatys greeni
- Diplatys incisus
- Diplatys porpinquus
- Schizodiplatys malayanus
Family Forficulidae
- Cordax ceylonicus
- Forficula auricularia
- Hypurgus humeralis
- Obelura dohertyi
Family Labiduridae
- Labidura japonica
- Labidura riparia
- Nala lividipes
Family Pygidicranidae
- Cranopygia nietneri
- Cranopygia parva
- Cranopygia pluto
- Echinosoma parvulum
- Echinosoma trilineatum
- Epicranopygia picta
Family Spongiphoridae
- Chaetospania anderssoni
- Chaetospania foliata
- Chaetospania thoracica
- Irdex ceylonensis
- Labia curvicauda
- Labia minor
- Paralabella curvicauda
- Parabella fruehstorferi
- Spirolabia pilicornis
- Paralabella rehni
- Paralabellula rotundifrons
- Spongovostox mucronatus
- Spongovostox semiflavus
- Spongovostox tripunctatus
- Syntonus neolobophoroides
See also
References
- Wijesekara, Anura; Wijesinghe, D.P. "HISTORY OF INSECT COLLECTION AND A REVIEW OF INSECT DIVERSITY IN SRI LANKA". Ceylon Journal of Science: 59. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.379.2411. Cite journal requires
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(help) - "Checklist of Dermaptera". insectoid.info. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- Beron, Petar. "Dermaptera (Insecta), identified by A. Brindle and preserved in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History (Sofia)" (PDF). Historia naturalis bulgarica. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
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