APACHYIDAE, Verhoeff, 1902

Popham, Edward J., 2000, The geographical distribution of the Dermaptera (Insecta) with reference to continental drift, Journal of Natural History 34 (10), pp. 2007-2027 : 2014

APACHYIDAE

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This subfamily is distributed from Africa to New Guinea (table 4). There are four species in Africa, one in India and Burma and eleven in the East Indies and Australasia. The widespread occurrence of this family in Africa and Madagascar suggests that its primary evolutionary centre was Africa and that the family had reached India before that subcontinent became united with southern Asia, from whence this family spread into the East Indies and Australasia. The presence of six species of Apachys in Australia may either represents a migration across with a united Gondwanaland or one from New Guinea, during a period of low sea level Jackson, (1995).

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MAP 5. Distribution of the Apachyidae.