Earwigs of Kenya| country | species | [genera] | (endemic/cosmopolitan) | specimens collected |  |
| Burundi | 8 |
[8] | (0/2) | 17 | |
| Djibouti | 1 | [1] | (0/1) | 1 | |
| Eritrea | 10 | [7] | (0/3) | 47 | |
| Ethiopia | 26 | [13] | (9/3) | 345 | |
| Kenya | 54 | [25] | (5/6) | 468 | |
| Rwanda | 20 | [14] | (0/2) | 20 | |
| Socotra | 9 | [6] | (2/3) | 103 | |
| Somalia | 4 | [4] | (0/2) | 5 | |
| Sudan | 14 | [7] | (2/2) | 120 | |
| Tanzania | 107 | [34] | (31/7) | 1286 | |
| Uganda | 52 | [24] | (7/5) | 421 |
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Further, detailed information on the Kenyan earwig fauna is available in the databases and in the link list.| Family | Subfamily | Species | Author | Notes and Common names | |
| 1 | Anisolabididae | Carcinophorinae | Anisolabis felix | (Burr, 1907) | |
| 2 | Anisolabis jeanneli | (Menozzi, 1938) | Locus Typicus, Endemic | ||
| 3 | Euborellia annulipes | (Lucas, 1847) | Cosmopolitan | ||
| 4 | Euborellia cincticollis | (Gerstaecker, 1883) | |||
| 5 | Euborellia tellinii | (Borelli,1908) | |||
| 6 | Gonolabis hincksi | (Brindle, 1964) | Locus Typicus, Endemic | ||
| 7 | Isolabiinae | Isolabis usambarana | (Verhoeff, 1902) | ||
| 8 | Apachyidae | Apachyinae | Apachyus depressus | (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) | |
| 9 | Chelisochidae | Chelisochinae | Chelisoches morio | (Fabricius, 1775) | Cosmopolitan |
| 10 | Diplatyidae | Diplatyinae | Diplatys fella | Burr, 1911 | |
| 11 | Diplatys macrocephalus | Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 | |||
| 12 | Diplatys pictus | (Zacher, 1910) | Locus Typicus, Endemic | ||
| 13 | Diplatys ugandanus | Hincks,1955 | |||
| 14 | Haplodiplatys kivuensis | (Hincks, 1951) | |||
| 15 | Lobodiplatys coriaceus | (Kirby, 1891) | |||
| 16 | Forficulidae | Cosmiellinae | Cosmiella adolfi | (Burr, 1909) | |
| 17 | Cosmiella bilobata | (Brindle, 1973) | Locus Typicus | ||
| 18 | Cosmiella pygidiata | (Brindle, 1973) | Locus Typicus, Endemic | ||
| 19 | Diapersticinae | Diaperasticus bonchampsi | (Burr, 1904) | ||
| 20 | Diaperasticus erythrocephalus | (Olivier, 1791) | |||
| 21 | Diaperasticus sansibaricus | (Karsch, 1886) | |||
| 22 | Forficulinae | Forficula auricularia | Linnaeus, 1758 | Cosmopolitan | |
| 23 | Forficula beelzebub | (Burr, 1900) | |||
| 24 | Forficula cavallii | (Borelli, 1906) | |||
| 25 | Forficula lucasi | Dohrn, 1865 | |||
| 26 | Forficula senegalensis | Audinet-Serville, 1839 | Kakamega | ||
| 27 | Guanchia rehni | (Burr, 1953) | Locus Typicus | ||
| 28 | Guanchia sjoestedti | (Burr, 1907) | |||
| 29 | Hemimeridae | Hemimerinae | Hemimerus deceptus | Rehn & Rehn, 1936 | |
| 30 | Hemimerus hanseni | Sharp, 1895 | |||
| 31 | Hemimerus sessor | Rehn & Rehn, 1936 | Locus Typicus | ||
| 32 | Hemimerus vosseleri | Rehn & Rehn, 1936 | |||
| 33 | Karschiellidae | Karschiellinae | Bormansia africana | Verhoeff, 1902 | |
| 34 | Bormansia impressicollis | Verhoeff, 1902 | Locus Typicus | ||
| 35 | Bormansia meridionalis | Burr, 1904 | |||
| 36 | Labiduridae | Labidurinae | Labidura riparia | (Pallas, 1773) | Cosmopolitan |
| 37 | Nalinae | Nala lividipes | (Dufour, 1828) | Cosmopolitan | |
| 38 | Pygidicranidae | Echinosomatinae | Echinosoma afrum | (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) | |
| 39 | Echinosoma concolor | Borelli, 1907 | |||
| 40 | Echinosoma occidentale | Bormans, 1893 | |||
| 41 | Echinosoma wahlbergi | Dohrn, 1863 | |||
| 42 | Pygidicraninae | Dacnodes caffra | (Dohrn, 1867) | ||
| 43 | Dacnodes separata | (Burr, 1908) | |||
| 44 | Dacnodes wigginsi | (Burr, 1914) | |||
| 45 | Spongiphoridae | Geracinae | Pseudovostox truncatus | Brindle, 1970 | Locus Typicus, Endemic |
| 46 | Labiinae | Labia minor | (Linnaeus, 1758) | Cosmopolitan | |
| 47 | Paralabella borellii | (Burr, 1908) | Locus Typicus | ||
| 48 | Paralabella curvicauda | (Motschulsky, 1863) | |||
| 49 | Sparattinae | Chaetospania pauliani | Hincks, 1948 | ||
| 50 | Chaetospania rodens | Burr, 1907 | |||
| 51 | Spongiphorinae | Marava arachidis | (Yersin, 1860) | ||
| 52 | Spongovostox assiniensis | (Bormans, 1893) | |||
| 53 | Spongovostox marginalis | (Thunberg, 1827) | Locus Typicus | ||
| 54 | Spongovostox quadrimaculatus | (Stal, 1855) |