Current Updates: 15.07.2009


Update see Date
Checklists for Ukraine and Russia added Ukraine, Russia 01.x.2008
Some simplifications in the HTML code and layout modifications throughout the website. All pages. 08.vii.2007
Now based in Nairobi, the work on the website has been resumed with an new page on Seychelles, as well as South African earwigs, and updated US page. Country Faunas 07.vii.2007
Thanks to SYNTHESYS programme, I could add around 2.500 data sets to different data bases from the Tervuren Central Africa Museum (RMCA) and Royal Institute for Natural Science (RBINS), aminly from Central Africa. Literature and Slides data bases. 30.IX.2006
Checklist for Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo added. Belgium; DR Congo 25.IX.2006
Some simplifications in the HTML code and layout modifications throughout the website. All pages. 20.IX.2006
New photos on the Labidura herculeana page. Labiura herculeana 19.IV.2006
Checklists for Argentina and the USA added. Country Faunas 16.IV.2006
Many more data sets for the Americas in the Distribution databaseA general update some more citations, less typos etc etc Databases 12.IV.2006
A checklist for tijeretas of the Venezuela has been added, the Peruvian checklist extended by almost 20 species, and for Australian checklist has been refined with annotations. Country Faunas 12.IV.2006
New Artwork Photos added. Photos 12.III.2006
Some new photos of Apterygida media added and now you can retrieve all available images of a species with just one click. Apterygida media and other species ... 12.III.2006
A checklist for Dermaptera of the Korean peninsula based on a Kim Tae-Woo's checklist, and a Kenyan checklist added. Country Faunas 24.II.2006
A checklist for Sudanese Dermaptera has been added and general update with typo correction, new citations, new location etc. Country Faunas 24.II.2006
The Giant Earwig of St. Helena - The Dodo of the Dermaptera. Now with the original description by Fabricius as PDF download. Labiura herculeana 04.II.2006
The user interface of the data bases has been updated and search results are now linked to retrieve distribution, photos etc much more efficiently Databases 04.I.20006
New Artwork Photos added. Photos 08.XII.2005
A checklist for Turkish Dermaptera has been added and many photos for both Turkish and Iranian Fauna have been added. Country Faunas 08.XII.2005
My Artwork page has been updated and now contains many new image, previously not shownMany small corrections and optimizations done in the whole webpage. Photos 20.XI.2005
Checklists and Literature lists added for Peru and Venezuela. Country Faunas 19.XI.2005
Another 600 original and exact records from all over the world have been addedThey have become available through the kindness of Dietmar Borisch (Sweden). A big thank you! Databases 16.XI.2005
A checklist for the Iranian earwigs added. Country Faunas 07.XI.2005
About 600 records for Switzerland added from 'Kocarek P, Rezbanyai-Reser L (.2005) Neuere Angaben zur Ohrwurmfauna der Schweiz (Dermamptera)Entomologische Berichte Luzern, 53: 135-148.' added to the Distribution database. A big thank you to the authors! Databases 07.XI.2005
Namibian Fauna finished and images added. Country Faunas 23.X.2005
New features to the Faunas pages added: retrieve all available records with just one click. Country Faunas 06.X.2005
New photos of earwig wild-life around Heilbronn; two species Forficula auricularia und Chelidura guentheri. Chelidura guentheri; Forficularia_auricularia 03.X.2005
References of my work are added and the image pages in the Faunas Section are now directly linked to the Fauna Europaea to get more information on the distribution of each species. Country Faunas; References 25.IX.2005
General update of databasesNew photos for the country faunas added. Country Faunas; Databases 08.IX.2005
UK and Irish fauna added, also the Swedish fauna written by Dietmar Borisch. UK fauna, Irish Fauna, Swedish Fauna 30.VIII.2005
My computer simulations for folding structures are now online. Movies 04.VIII.2005
New images of living earwigs for Anechura bipunctata (larva) and Labidura riparia (feeding, portrait and copulation) are available Anechura bipunctata; Labidura riparia 31.VII.2005
Earwig faunas of Germany, Austria and Switzerland now online.

Deutschlands/Germany

Österreichs/Austria

Schweiz/Switzerland

12.VI.2005
CV & Education, Photos pages re-launched, Earwigs of Germany updated. Die Ohrwürmer Deutschlands

CV & Education

Photos by Fabian Haas

03.V.2005
NHM index cards now also accessible as image files (.tif). Card Index NHM 26.IV.2005
Webpage dedicated to the German Dermaptera Fauna: Die Ohrwürmer Deutschlands. Die Ohrwürmer Deutschlands 19.IV.2005
Extensive update of the database: more than 300 citations added, especially from agriculture and phytosanitary field of work950 abstracts are available now (300 more than before)The distribution database has now about 500 records more, mostly data from label of the MTD, including types.

A new query from is available to get species lists more directly.

Xeroxes from reprints can now be ordered. Please contact me.

Colour coding of biogeographic information added.

Databases and Distribution 26.III.2005
Linkage from the Synonym database to the Photo & Drawings page, so you can get photos to each name. Synonyms 21.II.2005
Living Namibia in link list added, also colour coding of distribution data added, plus general update of databases. Databases and Links 17.II.2005
Data from Fauna Sinica included, ca100 citations added, 2 photos by Piotr Naskrecki added, auto-indexing function added on web-version, 2 people added, plus general update of databases.

Layout of Search results modified.

Databases 17.I.2005
Link list redesigned and updated, now with online databases. Links 23.XII.2004
A download page for my publication is online. Downloads 10.XII.2004
Acknowledgements refined and some more linksGeneral update of the database, many more vernacular names and language available. Acknowledgements and Links and all databases 03.XII.2004
Link page restructured and updated, some search options added. Links, Distribution and Photos & Drawings 11.XI.2004
general update (more citation and indexing, fewer typing mistakes). all databases 09.XI.2004
1.200 Photos from types and non-types of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) addedThis was possible through the COLPARSYST Programme. Thank you! Photos & Drawings Database 15.X.2004
Japanese vernacular name included based on Kohno's list of names. Vernacular & Common names Database 05.X.2004
Srivastava's (from Fauna of India I + II) and Brindle's (Dermaptera of Africa I + II) higher sytematics added. Systematics Database 04.X.2004
Link list exented and hyperlinks added. Links 01.X.2004

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