Nesogaster spatulus, Brindle

Miles, Claire, 2015, The Earwig Collection (Dermaptera) of the Manchester Museum, UK, with a complete type catalogue, European Journal of Taxonomy 141, pp. 1-138 : 123-124

spatulus Brindle (Nesogaster)

Fig.59

Type material

1 ♀, paratype, F3233.548 ( Fig. 59 ), dried, mounted on card

Locality label

Fiji, Vanua Levu / Nandrau / 9.10.1977 / G. Kuschel.

Determination label

Nesogaster ♀, / spatulus Brindle / det. A. Brindle 1983 / paratype.

Taxonomy

Spongiphoridae , Nesogastrinae , Nesogaster .

Remarks

This species is fully described in a typewritten manuscript in the Brindle archive, item 65 (Brindle & Maddison: date not known [unpublished?]), as ‘ N. spatulus sp. n. NZAC Endemic’ [NZAC = New Zealand Arthropod Collection]. The label data matches the described material exactly.

Figures

Figs 59–63. Other material, presumed manuscript names, in the collection of the Manchester Museum. 59. Nesogaster spatulus Brindle (det. 1983). 60. Metalabis subcarinata Brindle (det. 1987). 61. Carcinophora rossi Hincks (no date). 62. Tagalina flavolineata Brindle (det. 1980). 63. Brindle’s handwritten label for the Tagalina flavolineata specimen (Fig. 62). Scale bars = 1 cm.