The Earwigs of Iran
Checklist of the 13 species occurring in Iran
Author: Fabian Haas
Districts and Regions of Iran
Literature on Iranian Earwigs
Bey-Bienko GY (1936) Dermaptères. Faune de l'URSS. 239 pp.
Burr M (1911) Dermaptera. Genera Insectorum, Volume 122: 112 pp.
Burr M (1912) Die Dermaptera des k.k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien. Annalen des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, 26: 63-108.
Buxton PA (1921) Earwigs from Mesopotamia and NW Persia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 27: 963-964.
Cejchan A, Maran J (1974) Results of the Czechoslovak-Iran entomological expedition to Iran 1970. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplement, 6: 95-97.
Mossadegh MS (1995) Insects associated with honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) hives in Iran. Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 1 (3/4): 21-27.
Semenov A (1902) Dermaptera brought by NA Zarudny from his journey in 1900-1901 in Eastern Persia. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae: 36.
Steinmann H (1988) A revision of the Oriental Forficula Linnaeus, 1758 species (Dermaptera: Forficulidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 34 (1): 1-26.
Further, detailed information on the Iranian earwig fauna is available in the databases and in the link list.
Alphabetic List of Species (updated 13. June '06)
| Family | Subfamily | Species | Author | Common Name and Notes | |
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1
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Anisolabididae | Carcinophorinae | Anisolabis maritima | (Bonelli,1832) | added by Hassan Ghahari |
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2
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Euborellia annulipes | (Lucas, 1847) | Ring-legged Earwig | ||
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3
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Forficulidae | Anechurinae | Anechura bipunctata | (Fabricius, 1781) | |
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4
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Anechura globalis | Steinmann, 1990 | |||
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5
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Anechura zubovskii | Semenov, 1901 | added by Hassan Ghahari | ||
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6
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Forficulinae | Forficula auricularia | Linnaeus, 1758 |
Common Earwig, European Earwig |
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7
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Forficula decipiens | Géné, 1832 | |||
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8
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Forficula lucasi | Dohrn, 1865 | |||
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9
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Forficula lurida | Fischer, 1853 | |||
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10
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Labiduridae | Labidurinae | Labidura riparia | (Pallas, 1773) |
Striped, Giant or Tawny Earwig |
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11
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Nalinae | Nala lividipes | (Dufour, 1828) | added by Hassan Ghahari | |
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12
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Spongiphoridae | Labiinae | Isolabella graeca | Verhoeff, 1901 | added by Hassan Ghahari |
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13
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Labia minor | (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Small or Lesser Earwig |
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