![]() | European Earwig Male: ventral | Brown Native Earwig Female, profile | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Earwigs (Dermaptera) | ||||
Family: | Striped Earwig (Labiduridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Brown Native Earwig (Labidura riparia) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Female, dorsal🔎 | ||||
Synonym: | Labidura truncata | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~17mm long, pincers ~5mm long. A very distinctive orange "V" on the thorax. Very parallel sided abdomen. Came to a night light sheet. Found one specimen in March. | |||||
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