Black Bush Earwig: Female: Tegmina

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Earwigs (Dermaptera)

Family:

Striped Earwig (Labiduridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Black Bush Earwig (Nala lividipes)

This Photo:

Female: Tegmina

Thank you David Muirhead & Konstantinos Kalaentzis for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Both male & female were measured at ~11mm long, excluding ~2.5mm pincers.
The genders can be separated as the male pincers are much further apart than the female.
We have found 4 specimens, 2 male & 2 female, in Oct, Dec & Feb.

This species is

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

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