List of Dermapterans of Sri Lanka

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 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[]

Euborellia annulipes
Euborellia stali

Family Apachyidae[]

Family Apataniidae[]

Family Chelisochidae[]

Chelisoches morio

Family Diplatyidae[]

Family Forficulidae[]

Forficula auricularia

Family Labiduridae[]

Labidura riparia

Family Pygidicranidae[]

Family Spongiphoridae[]

Labia minor

References[]

^ Wijesekara, Anura; Wijesinghe, D.P. "HISTORY OF INSECT COLLECTION AND A REVIEW OF INSECT DIVERSITY IN SRI LANKA". Ceylon Journal of Science: 59. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.379.2411. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "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.

[WijesekaraNWijesinghe-1] Wijesekara, Anura; Wijesinghe, D.P. "HISTORY OF INSECT COLLECTION AND A REVIEW OF INSECT DIVERSITY IN SRI LANKA". Ceylon Journal of Science: 59. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.379.2411. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[2] "Checklist of Dermaptera". insectoid.info. Retrieved 7 June 2016.

[3] 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.

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