Earwigs of Peru
Although the following seems to be a good base for faunistic work, many of these publications do not contain keys to the identification. The work on Venezuela, though not a neighbouring country, proved to useful for this purpose. Please follow this link ...
Briceno RD (1992) Efecto geografico en la diversidad y en la distribucion de especies del Orden Dermaptera en el Continente Americano.
[Geographic effect of the species diversity and distribution of the order Dermaptera in the American continent]. Brenesia, 38 (0): 71-75.
Brindle A (1966) Notes on the Dermaptera in the Hamburg Museum. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 3 (56): 127-141.
Brindle A (1966) Notes on the Pericominae (Dermaptera, Labiidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 102: 25-28.
Brindle A (1966) The Dermaptera of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Part I. Arkiv för Zoologi, 14: 437- 447.
Brindle A (1967) Two new species of Gonolabina Verhoeff (Dermaptera, Carcinophoridae) from Peru. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 103: 5-11.
Brindle A (1967) The Dermaptera of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Part II. Arkiv för Zoologi, 20 (7): 147-163.
Brindle A (1967) Further Notes on Dermaptera in the Hamburg Museum. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 3 (59): 189-195.
Brindle A (1967) Two new species of Gonolabina Verhoeff (Dermaptera, Carcinophoridae) from Peru. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 103: 5-11.
Brindle A (1970) A key to the neotropical genus Neolobophora Scudder, and related genera (Dermaptera, Forficulidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 106: 97-105.
Brindle A (1971) A revision of the Labiidae (Dermaptera) of the neotropical and nearctic regions. III. Spongiphorinae. Journal of Natural History, 5: 521-568.
Brindle A (1971) A revision of the genus Doru Burr (Dermaptera, Forficulidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 23: 173-196.
Brindle A (1971) A revision of the Labiidae (Dermaptera) of the neotropical and nearctic regions. II. Geracinae and Labiinae. Journal of Natural History, 5 (0): 155-182.
Brindle A (1973) Taxonomic notes on the genus Strongylopsalis Burr (Dermaptera, Labiidae). Journal of Entomology, 42 (1): 11-16.
Brindle A (1979) Five new species of American earwigs (Dermaptera). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 115: 149-154.
Brindle A (1984) The Esphalmeninae (Dermaptera: Pygidicranidae): a group of Andean and Southern African earwigs. Systematic Entomology, 9: 281-292.
Burr M (1911) Ueber einige interessante Dermapteren der Dohrn‘schen Sammlung. Entomologische Zeitung, 1911 (1): 327-342.
Domenico FC de (2005) Lista de tipos de Dermaptera e Orthoptera (Insecta) depositados no Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia , 45 (7): 69-75.
Hebard M (1917) Dermapterological notes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 69 (June): 231-250.
Iannacone Oliver JA, Montoro Zamora I (2002) Impact of two bioinsecticide botanical products (azadirachtin and rotenone) on the arthropofauna captured by pitfall traps on tomatoes in Ica, Peru. Revista Colombiana de Entomologia, 28 (2): 191-198.
Rehn JAG (1905) Notes on exotic Forficulids or earwigs, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 29: 501-515.
Reichardt H (1968) Catalogue of new world Dermaptera (Insecta). Part I Introduction and Pygidicranoidea. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 21: 183-193. (NO ID KEYS)
Reichardt H (1968) Catalogue of new world Dermaptera (Insecta). Part II Labioides, Carcinophoridae. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 22: 35-46. (NO ID KEYS)
Reichardt H (1970) Catalogue of new world Dermaptera (Insecta). Part III Labioidea, Labiidae. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 23: 83-109. (NO ID KEYS)
Reichardt H (1971) Catalogue of new world Dermaptera (Insecta). Part IV Forficuloidea. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 24: 161-184. (NO ID KEYS)
Sakai S (1989) New Dermaptera record from Peru, with a description of a new species (Dermaptera: Anisolabididae). Special Bulletin Daito Bunka University, 37 (0): 1-2.
Detailed information on the earwig fauna is available in the databases and in the link list.| Family | Subfamily | Species | Author | Common Name and Notes | |
| 1 | Anisolabididae | Brachylabinae | Ctenisolabis nigra | (Scudder, 1876) | |
| 2 | Carcinophorinae | Anisolabis antennata | (Ramamurthi & David, 1973) | ||
| 3 | Carcinophora americana | (Palisot de Beauvois, 1817) | |||
| 4 | Carcinophora burri | (Borelli, 1905) | |||
| 5 | Carcinophora peruviana | (Bormans, 1880) | |||
| 6 | Carcinophora scudderi | (Bormans, 1900) | |||
| 7 | Gonolabinae | Gonolabina binodosa | Brindle, 1967 | ||
| 8 | Gonolabina trinodosa | Brindle, 1967 | |||
| 9 | Idolopsalinae | Idolopsalis azteca | (Dohrn, 1862) | ||
| 10 | Idolopsalis koepckei | Brindle, 1966 | |||
| 11 | Idolopsalis riveti | Borelli, 1910 | |||
| 12 | Forficulidae | Ancistrogastrinae | Ancistrogaster variegata | (Dohrn, 1865) | |
| 13 | Osteulcus kervillei | (Burr, 1905) | |||
| 14 | Praos intermedius | (Burr, 1900) | |||
| 15 | Cosmiellinae | Kleter americanus | (Bormans, 1893) | ||
| 16 | Kleter aterrimus | (Bormans, 1883) | |||
| 17 | Kleter borellii | (Burr, 1912) | |||
| 18 | Forficulinae | Doru gracilis | (Burmeister, 1838) | ||
| 19 | Doru lineare | (Eschscholtz, 1822) | |||
| 20 | Doru luteipes | (Scudder, 1876) | |||
| 21 | Doru robustum | Brindle, 1971 | |||
| 22 | Skalistes inopinata | (Burr, 1900) | |||
| 23 | Skalistes peruviana | Brindle, 1970 | |||
| 24 | Neolobophorinae | Neolobophora inca | Brindle, 1970 | ||
| 25 | Opisthocosminae | Parasyntonus ensifer | (Burr, 1912) | ||
| 26 | Labiduridae | Labidurinae | Forcipula americana | Bormans, 1900 | |
| 27 | Pygidicranidae | Cylindrogastrinae | Cylindrogaster gracilis | Stal, 1855 | |
| 28 | Esphalmeninae | Esphalmenus inca | (Burr, 1903) | ||
| 29 | Pygidicraninae | Pygidicrana bivittata | Erichson, 1848 | ||
| 30 | Pyragrinae | Pyragra fuscata | Audinet-Serville, 1831 | ||
| 31 | Pyragra paraguayensis | Borelli, 1904 | |||
| 32 | Pyragropsis emarginata | Rehn, 1916 | |||
| 33 | Spongiphoridae | Geracinae | Barygerax auricomum | (Rehn, 1903) | |
| 34 | Labiinae | Circolabia arcuata | (Scudder, 1876) | ||
| 35 | Paralabella annulata | (Fabricius, 1793) | |||
| 36 | Paralabella dorsalis | (Burmeister, 1838) | |||
| 37 | Pericominae | Pericomus tenuipes | (Burr, 1905) | ||
| 38 | Sparattinae | Mecomera brunnea | (Audinet-Serville, 1839) | ||
| 39 | Sparatta armata | Burr, 1899 | |||
| 40 | Sparatta bolivari | Bormans, 1880 | |||
| 41 | Sparatta nigrina | Stal, 1855 | |||
| 42 | Spongiphorinae | Marava machupicchuensis | Brindle, 1971 | ||
| 43 | Marava rotundata | (Scudder, 1876) | |||
| 44 | Purex divergens | (Burr, 1899) | |||
| 45 | Purex frontalis | (Dohrn, 1864) | |||
| 46 | Purex propinquus | (Burr, 1911) | |||
| 47 | Purex staudingeri | Brindle, 1971 | |||
| 48 | Spongiphora buprestoides | (Kirby, 1891) | |||
| 49 | Spongiphora croceipennis | Audinet-Serville, 1831 | |||
| 50 | Spongovostox bilineatus | (Scudder, 1869) | |||
| 51 | Spongovostox pygmaeus | (Dohrn, 1864) | |||
| 52 | Vostox brunneipennis | (Audinet-Serville, 1839) | |||
| 53 | Strongylopsalinae | Strongylopsalis cheliduroides | (Bormans, 1880) | ||
| 54 | Strongylopsalis koepckei | Brindle, 1968 | |||
| 55 | Strongylopsalis laminata | Brindle, 1973 |