Cranopygia Burr sensu Hincks (1955)

Kamimura, Yoshitaka, Nishikawa, Masaru & Lee, Chow-Yang, 2016, A new earwig of the genus Echinosoma from Penang Island, Peninsular Malaysia, with notes on the taxonomic and nomenclatural problems of the genus Cranopygia (Insecta, Dermaptera, Pygidicranidae), ZooKeys 636, pp. 51-65 : 56-57

Genus Cranopygia Burr sensu Hincks (1955)

Cranopygia pallidipennis (de Haan, 1842)

Material examined.

Male, preserved in the collection of the laboratory of entomology (Makmal Entomologi), School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia: Ta man Rimba (Teluk Bahang Recreational Park), Penang Island, 9 XII 2009, Tan Chia Chi leg. The specimen has now been transferred to the entomological specimen collections of the School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Two females (one emerged from nymph on 30 III 2015): Bukit Jambul (secondary forest of a rubber plantation), Penang Island, 11 III 2015, Y. Kamimura leg.

Comparative material examined.

Cranopygia similis (Zacher, 1911): Male, preserved in the collection of the Manchester Museum, the University of Manchester, England: "H. LUCHT, K. O. Blawan, 900/1500 Mr., Idjan Plateau [with unreadable handwritten characters:? 205.39] / 3639 / Cranopygia similis (Zacher) ♂, det W. D. Hinks" [MM No. 3639].

Known distribution.

Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Kuru), Myanmar, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo).

Remarks.

First record for Penang Island.