Earwigs of the USA
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Detailed information on the earwig fauna is available in the databases and in the link list.| Family | Subfamily | Species | Author | Common Name and Notes | |
| 1 | Anisolabididae | Carcinophorinae | Carcinophora percheroni | (Guerin & Percheron, 1838) | |
| 2 | Euborellia ambigua | (Borelli, 1906) | |||
| 3 | Euborellia annulipes | (Lucas, 1847) | |||
| 4 | Euborellia caraibea | Hebard, 1921 | |||
| 5 | Euborellia cincticollis | (Gerstaecker, 1883) | |||
| 6 | Euborellia femoralis | (Dohrn, 1863) | |||
| 7 | Euborellia plebeja | (Dohrn, 1863) | |||
| 8 | Idolopsalinae | Idolopsalis azteca | (Dohrn, 1862) | ||
| 9 | Chelisochidae | Chelisochinae | Chelisoches morio | (Fabricius, 1775) | tramp species, not native |
| 10 | Forficulidae | Cosmiellinae | Kleter aterrimus | (Bormans, 1883) | |
| 11 | Forficulinae | Doru aculeatum | (Scudder, 1876) | ||
| 12 | Doru davisi | Rehn & Hebard, 1914 | |||
| Doru gracilis | (Burmeister, 1838) | based questionable and unconfirmed records by Scudder 1901 and Caudell 1913; an independant confirmation would be helpful. | |||
| 13 | Doru lineare | (Eschscholtz, 1822) | |||
| 14 | Doru taeniatum | (Dohrn, 1862) | |||
| 15 | Forficula auricularia | Linnaeus, 1758 | |||
| 16 | Labiduridae | Labidurinae | Labidura riparia | (Pallas, 1773) | |
| 17 | Pygidicranidae | Pyragrinae | Pyragropsis buscki | (Caudell, 1907) | |
| 18 | Spongiphoridae | Labiinae | Labia minor | (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| 19 | Paralabella curvicauda | (Motschulsky, 1863) | |||
| 20 | Paralabella rehni | (Hebard, 1917) | |||
| 21 | Spirolabia pilicornis | (Motschulsky, 1863) | |||
| 22 | Spongiphorinae | Marava arachidis | (Yersin, 1860) | ||
| 23 | Marava pulchella | (Audinet-Serville, 1839) | |||
| 24 | Marava unidentata | (PalisotdeBeauvois, 1805) | |||
| 25 | Vostox apicedentatus | (Caudell, 1904) | |||
| 26 | Vostox brunneipennis | (Audinet-Serville, 1839) | |||
| 27 | Vostox excavatus | Nutting & Gurney, 1961 | |||
| 28 | Strongylopsalinae | Strongylolabis berlandi | (Hebard, 1920) | probably an imprecise synonymy, should be Vostox brunneipennis |