Chelisoches

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Chelisoches
Chelisoches morio.jpg
A black earwig (Chelisoches morio) on a sign in Hawaii Botanical Garden
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Chelisoches

Species

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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:

  • (Bormans, 1900)[3]
  • (Le Guillou, 1841)
  • Günther, 1934
  • 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

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