List of Dermapterans of Sri Lanka
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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.
The following list provides the earwigs currently identified from Sri Lanka.
Earwig
[edit]The exact diversity and their biology is well studied within Sri Lanka due to major contributions by Malcolm Burr in 1901, Alan Brindle in 1977 and G.K. Srivastava in 1989-2013. 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
[edit]- Anisolabis greeni
- Anisolabis kudagae
- Antisolabis kelangi (=Geracodes brincki)
- Epilandex bazyluki (proposed synonymy with Epilandex burri)
- Euborellia annulipes
- Euborellia stali
- Gonolabis electa
- Platylabia major
Family Apachyidae
[edit]Family Chelisochidae
[edit]- Chelisoches morio
- Schizoproreus delicatulus (=Hamaxas delicatulus)
Family Diplatyidae
[edit]Family Forficulidae
[edit]- Cordax ceylonicus
- Elaunon bipartitus
- Eparchus insignis
- Hypurgus humeralis
- Obelura tamul
- Syntonus neolobophoroides (=Obelura neolobophoroides)
Family Labiduridae
[edit]Family Pygidicranidae
[edit]- Acrania picta (=Epicranopygia picta)
- Cranopygia nietneri
- Cranopygia parva
- Cranopygia pluto
- Echinosoma parvulum
- Echinosoma trilineatum
Family Spongiphoridae
[edit]- Chaetospania anderssoni
- Chaetospania foliata
- Chaetospania thoracica
- Irdex ceylonensis (=Apovostox ceylonensis)
- Labia curvicauda
- Labia minor
- Paralabella curvicauda (=Circolabia curvicauda)
- Paralabella fruehstorferi (=Circolabia fruehstorferi)
- Paralabella rehni (=Circolabia rehni)
- Paralabella rotundifrons (=Circolabia rotundifrons)
- Spirolabia pillicornis (=Circolabia pillicornis)
- Spongovostox mucronatus (=Paratages mucronatus)
- Spongovostox semiflavus
- Spongovostox tripunctatus
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wijesekara, Anura; Wijesinghe, D.P. "History of Insect Collection and a Review of Insect Diversity in Sri Lanka". p. 59. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.379.2411.
- ^ "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.