Chelisoches

Genus of earwigs

Chelisoches
A black earwig (Chelisoches morio) on a sign in Hawaii Botanical Garden
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Family: Chelisochidae
Subfamily: Chelisochinae
Genus: Chelisoches
Scudder, 1876[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Enkrates Burr 1907
  • Kleiduchus Burr 1911
  • Lobophora Audinet-Serville, 1838[2] (preoccupied)

Chelisoches (name coming from Greek from χηλη οχεω 'pincer-carrier') is a genus of earwigs in the family Chelisochidae. Species are from the Pacific Islands. C. morio has been introduced to California and Florida.

Species

This genus includes the following species:

  • Chelisoches annulatus
  • Chelisoches ater (Bormans, 1900)[3]
  • Chelisoches australicus (Le Guillou, 1841)
  • Chelisoches handschini Günther, 1934
  • Chelisoches kimberleyensis Mjöberg, 1913
  • Chelisoches morio (Fabricius, 1775)

Names brought to synonymy

  • Chelisoches elegans De Bormans, 1900, a synonym for Euenkrates elegans (De Bormans, 1900) [Srivastava 1976].

References

  1. ^ Scudder 1876: Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 18, 295
  2. ^ Audinet-Serville, Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Othopteres. (1839), p.32
  3. ^ Quelques Dermaptères du Musée civique de Gênes. A Bormans, Annali del Musco Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 1900
Wikispecies has information related to Chelisoches.
  • "Chelisoches" at the Encyclopedia of Life
  • Chelisoches at Bug Guide
  • Chelisoches at dermaptera.speciesfile.org
Taxon identifiers
Chelisoches


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