Nesogaster cristata Brindle, 1976 b: 79

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 : 41-42

Nesogaster cristata Brindle, 1976 b: 79 , figs 24–25.

Type material

3 ♂♂, paratypes, F3233.524–526; 2 ♀♀, paratypes, F3233.527–528; dried, mounted on card.

Locality labels

F3233.524: New Caledonia / Mt. Koghi / 27.I.1963. // C. Yoshimoto / & N. Krauss / Light Trap.

F3233.525: New Caledonia / Plateau de / Dogny. // 30. III.1968 // J. L. Gressitt / Collector / Bishop Museum.

F3233.526–527: New Caledonia / Plaine des Lacs / area, 6.XI.1958. // C.R. Joyce / Collector.

F3233.528: New Caledonia / Foret de Thi to / Hamma, 700–800 m / 16.VII.1958. // Malkin & J. Rageau / Collectors.

Taxonomy

Spongiphoridae , Nesogastrinae , Nesogaster cristatus Brindle, 1976 .

Remarks

1. Both Steinmann (1989c: 404) and Hopkins et al. (2014) refer to this species as cristatus . Brindle gives cristata in the original description and on the 1973 determination labels.

2. In the original description, the data for F3233.524 only matches that for one of the specimens described under ‘Other material examined’ as being at MMUE, a larva.