Labia africana Brindle, 1968 e: 24

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 : 22

Labia africana Brindle, 1968 e: 24 , figs 13–15.

Type material

1 ♂, holotype, F3233.1590 ( Fig. 50 ), dried, mounted on card.

Type locality

Nigeria: / Banchi Prov. / Gadan 25.6.57 / P. Blasdale.

Taxonomy

Spongiphoridae , Geracinae , Pseudovostox africanus (Brindle, 1968) .

Remarks

Transferred by Brindle (1970g: 60). Hopkins et al. (2014) refer to this species as ‘ africana’. Steinmann (1989c: 424) states Brindle’s use of P. africana in 1970g is a misprint for P. africanus . (See also below under P. africanus meridionalis and P. africanus sudanensis .)

Figures

Figs 49–58. Holotypes (♂) of Spongiphoridae in the collection of the Manchester Museum. 49. Auchenomus variabilis guadalcanalensis Brindle, 1970. 50. Labia africana Brindle, 1968 (now Pseudovostox africanus). 51. Vandex pophami Brindle, 1969. 52. Pericomus ater Brindle, 1988. 53. Pseudovostox africanus sudanensis Brindle, 1970. 54. P. hincksi Brindle, 1970. 55. Strongylopsalis koepckei Brindle, 1968. 56. Labia rotundifrons Hincks, 1954 (now Paralabella rotundifrons). 57. Chaetospania meridionalis Brindle, 1973. 58. Nesogaster javanicus Hincks, 1951 (now N. aculeatus). Scale bars = 1 cm.