Brown Native Earwig: Female, dorsal

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.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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