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Genus Dacnodes Burr, 1907

  • Dacnodes Burr, M. 1907. On a remarkable new earwig (Dermatoptera) from Portuguese West Africa. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 43: 60-62 [60].
    Type species:
     Dacnodes wellmani Burr, 1907 by monotypy.
  • Dicrana Burr, M. 1908. Notes on the Forficularia. XIV. A revision of the Pygidicraninae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 382-392 [387].
    Type species:
     Pygidicrana frontalis Kirby, 1903 by original designation.
  • Picrania Burr, M. 1908. Notes on the Forficularia. XIV. A revision of the Pygidicraninae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 382-392 [390].
    Type species:
     Forficesila liturata Stål, 1855 by original designation.
  • Acnodes Burr, M. 1911. Ueber einige interessante Dermapteren der Dohrn' schen Sammlung. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 72: 327-342 [328] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Dacnodes Burr, 1907].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Hincks, W.D. 1955. New species of Pygidicraninae Earwigs (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 806-827 [806]

 

Distribution

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • Western Australia: SW coastal

Neotropical Region

Distribution References

  • Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [137-145]

General References

Brindle, A. 1973. The Dermaptera of Africa. I. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique No. 8, Sciences Zoologique 1973(205): 1-335 [58] (description)

Brindle, A. 1978. The Dermaptera of Africa. Part II. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique No. 8, Sciences Zoologiques 1978(225): 1-204 [182] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Picrania as valid genus)

Hincks, W.D. 1957. Dermaptera. The earwigs of South Africa. pp. 33-94 in Hanström, B., Brinck, P. & Rudebeck, G. (eds). South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950–1951. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell Vol. 4 [40] (species key)

Hincks, W.D. 1959. A Systematic Monograph of the Dermaptera of the World, based on material in the British Museum (Natural History). Pygidicranidae excluding Diplatyinae. London : British Museum (Natural History) Part 2 x 218 pp. [25] (description, revision)

Steinmann, H. 1986. Dermaptera, Part I: Catadermaptera (I): Pygidicranidae. Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten, Berlin 102: xiv 1-336 [202] (description, revision)