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[edit]
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[edit]
- Anisolabis greeni
- Anisolabis kelangi
- Anisolabis kudagae
- Epilandex burri
- Euborellia annulipes
- Euborellia stali
- Gonolabis electa
- Geracodes brincki
- Platylabia major
Family Apachyidae[edit]
Family Apataniidae[edit]
Family Chelisochidae[edit]
Family Diplatyidae[edit]
Family Forficulidae[edit]
Family Labiduridae[edit]
Family Pygidicranidae[edit]
- Cranopygia nietneri
- Cranopygia parva
- Cranopygia pluto
- Echinosoma parvulum
- Echinosoma trilineatum
- Epicranopygia picta
Family Spongiphoridae[edit]
- 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
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.