Earwigs of Seychelles

Checklist of the 23 species occurring on the Seychelles


Author: Fabian Haas

Publications on Seychelles Earwigs

Seychelles

Relief, water and urban centers. No of Dermaptera species in each country.

Bormans A (1895) Mission Scientific de M. Ch. Alluaud aux iles Sechelles. Annales de la Societé entomologique de France, 64: 387-388.

Burr M (1910) Dermaptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, 14: 123-133.

Brindle A (1976) Dermaptera from the Seychelles. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 90 (2): 435-445.

Floater GJ (1994) Effects of habitat destruction on endemic Dermaptera of the Seychelles. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 130: 59-61.

Floater GJ (1995) Effect of epiphytes on the abundance and species richness of litter-dwelling insects in a Seychelles cloud forest. Tropical Ecology, 36 (2): 203-212.

Hincks WD (1947) Preliminary notes on Mauritian earwigs (Dermaptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 11 (Volume 14): 517-540.

Hincks WD (1954) Notes on Dermaptera. Proceedings of the Royal entomological Society of London (B), 23 (9-10): 159-163.

Matyot P (1995) The earwig Chaetospania gardineri (Burr, 1910) rediscovered. PHELSUMA, 3 (0): 58-62.

Matyot P (1998) The orthopteroids of the Seychelles: a threatened island fauna. Journal of Insect Conservation, 2 (3-4): 235-246.

Nishikawa M (1973) Dermaptera of Malay Peninsula taken by the Japanese IBP Research Team. Nature and Life in South East Asia, 7: 317-322.

Popham EJ (1963) The geographical distribution of the Dermaptera. Entomologist, (June 1963): 131-144.

Scott H (1910) Eight months’ entomological collecting in the Seychelles islands, 1908-1909. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 14: 21-39.

Scott H (1933 or 1932) General conclusion regarding the insect fauna of the Seychelles and adjacent islands. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 19: 307-391.

Detailed information on the earwig fauna is available in the databases and in the link list.


Alphabetic List of Species

Family Subfamily Species Author Notes and Common names
1 Anisolabididae Antisolabiinae Antisolabis scotti (Burr, 1910)
2 Antisolabis seychellensis (Brindle, 1976)
3 Carcinophorinae Anisolabis dohrni (Kirby, 1891)
4 Euborellia annulipes (Lucas, 1847)
5 Euborellia femoralis (Dohrn, 1863)
6 Euborellia plebeja (Dohrn, 1863)
7 Euborellia stali (Dohrn, 1864)
8 Gonolabis electa Burr, 1910
9 Platylabiinae Platylabia major Dohrn, 1867
10 Chelisochidae Chelisochinae Chelisoches morio (Fabricius, 1775)
11 Forficulidae Opisthocosminae Hypurgus ova (Bormans, 1883)
12 Labiduridae Labidurinae Labidura riparia (Pallas, 1773)
13 Pygidicranidae Echinosomatinae Echinosoma bolivari Rodzianko, 1897
14 Spongiphoridae Labiinae Chaetolabia fryeri (Burr, 1910)
15 Labia minor (Linnaeus, 1758)
16 Paralabella curvicauda (Motschulsky, 1863)
17 Spirolabia browni (Hincks, 1954)
18 Spirolabia pilicornis (Motschulsky, 1863)
19 Sparattinae Chaetospania gardineri (Burr, 1910)
20 Chaetospania thoracica (Dohrn, 1867)
21 Spongiphorinae Marava alluaudi (Burr, 1904)
22 Marava arachidis (Yersin, 1860)
23 Marava griveaudi Brindle, 1966

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