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Genus Forficula Linnaeus, 1758

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Genus Forficula Linnaeus, 1758

  • Forficula Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae, secundem Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentis, Synonymis, Locis. Tom.1, Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii 824 pp. [423].
    Type species:
     Forficula auricularia Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [433]
  • Forfidula Houlbert, C. 1924. Thysanoures, Dermapteres et Orthopteres de France et de la Faune europeenne. Paris : Doin Vol. 1 213-262 pp. [246].
    Type species:
     Forficula decipiens Gené, 1832 by original designation.
  • Emiforficula Menozzi, C. 1927. Dermatteri del Deutsches Entomologisches Museum di Dahlem-Berlin. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 16: 234-240 [239].
    Type species:
     Forficula ornata Bormans, 1884 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Steinmann, H. 1988. A revision of the Oriental Forficula Linnaeus, 1758 species (Dermaptera: Forficulidae). Acta Zoologica Hungarica 34: 1-26 [1]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.


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

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Distribution References

  • Steinmann, H. 1989. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers 934 pp. [807-844]

General References

Bey-Bienko, G.J. 1936. Insectes Dermaptères. Faune de l'U.R.S.S NS 5: 1-239 [in Russian] [124] (species key)

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 [234] (species key)

Burr, M. 1907. A preliminary revision of the Forficulidae (sensu stricto) and of the Chelisochidae, families of the Dermaptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1907: 91-143 [109] (species key)

Burr, M. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Dermaptera. London : Taylor & Francis xviii 217 pp. 10 pls [164] (species key)

Burr, M. 1911. Dermaptera. In Wystman, P. (ed.). Gen. Insect. 122: 1–112 [80]

Burr, M. 1916. On the male genitalia armature of the Dermaptera. III: Eudermaptera. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. London 1916: 2-18 4 pls [14]

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 [82] (species key)

Popham, E.J. & Brindle, A. 1969. Genera and species of the Dermaptera. 10. Forficulinae. The Entomologist 102: 61-66 [62] (list)

Steinmann, H. 1993. Dermaptera. Eudermaptera II. Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten, Berlin 108: xxii 1-711 [589] (description)