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 (DaveMMDave) & 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.

This species is

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

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