List of Dermapterans of Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions of the world. There are about 2 million species of arthropods found in the world, and still is counting.

The following list provides the earwigs currently identified from Sri Lanka.

Earwig

The exact diversity and their biology is well studied within Sri Lanka due to major contributions by Malcolm Burr in 1901 and Alan Brindle in 1977. According to a checklist by Steinmann in 1989, 71 species of earwigs may be found in Sri Lanka,^[1] distributed between 11 families and 21 genera.^[2]^[3]

Family Anisolabididae

Anisolabis greeni
Anisolabis kelangi
Anisolabis kudagae
Epilandex burri
Euborellia annulipes
Euborellia stali
Gonolabis electa
Geracodes brincki
Platylabia major

Family Apachyidae

Dendroiketes corticinus

Family Apataniidae

Apsilochorema diffine

Family Chelisochidae

Chelisoches morio

Family Diplatyidae

Diplatys fletcheri
Diplatys greeni
Diplatys incisus
Diplatys porpinquus
Schizodiplatys malayanus

Family Forficulidae

Cordax ceylonicus
Eparchus insignis
Forficula auricularia
Hypurgus humeralis
Obelura dohertyi

Family Labiduridae

Labidura japonica
Labidura riparia
Nala lividipes

Family Pygidicranidae

Cranopygia nietneri
Cranopygia parva
Cranopygia pluto
Echinosoma parvulum
Echinosoma trilineatum
Epicranopygia picta

Family Spongiphoridae

Chaetospania anderssoni
Chaetospania foliata
Chaetospania thoracica
Irdex ceylonensis
Labia curvicauda
Labia minor
Paralabella curvicauda
Parabella fruehstorferi
Spirolabia pilicornis
Paralabella rehni
Paralabellula rotundifrons
Spongovostox mucronatus
Spongovostox semiflavus
Spongovostox tripunctatus
Syntonus neolobophoroides

References

^ Wijesekara, Anura; Wijesinghe, D.P. "History of Insect Collection and a Review of Insect Diversity in Sri Lanka". p. 59. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.379.2411.
^ "Checklist of Dermaptera". insectoid.info. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
^ Beron, Petar. "Dermaptera (Insecta), identified by A. Brindle and preserved in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History (Sofia)" (PDF). Historia naturalis bulgarica. Retrieved 7 June 2016.