Chelisoches

Chelisoches
	A black earwig (Chelisoches morio) on a sign in Hawaii Botanical Garden
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Dermaptera
Family:	Chelisochidae
Subfamily:	Chelisochinae
Genus:	Chelisoches; Scudder, 1876
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Enkrates Burr 1907; Kleiduchus Burr 1911; Lobophora Audinet-Serville, 1838 (preoccupied);

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.

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

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

External links

"Chelisoches". The Encyclopedia of Life.
Chelisoches at Bug Guide
Chelisoches at dermaptera.speciesfile.org

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[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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