Chelisoches
{{Short description|Genus of earwigs}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Chelisoches morio.jpg
| image_caption = A black earwig (Chelisoches morio) on a sign in Hawaii Botanical Garden
| taxon = Chelisoches
| authority = Scudder, 1876Scudder 1876: Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 18, 295
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms =
- Enkrates Burr 1907
- Kleiduchus Burr 1911
- Lobophora Audinet-Serville, 1838Audinet-Serville, Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Othopteres. (1839), p.32 (preoccupied)
}}
Chelisoches (name coming from Greek from χηλη οχεω 'pincer-carrier') is a genus of earwigs in the family Chelisochidae. Species are from the Pacific Islands. C. morio has been introduced to California and Florida.
Species
This genus includes the following species:
- Chelisoches annulatus
- Chelisoches ater (Bormans, 1900)Quelques Dermaptères du Musée civique de Gênes. A Bormans, Annali del Musco Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 1900
- Chelisoches australicus (Le Guillou, 1841)
- Chelisoches handschini Günther, 1934
- Chelisoches kimberleyensis Mjöberg, 1913
- Chelisoches morio (Fabricius, 1775)
Names brought to synonymy
- Chelisoches elegans De Bormans, 1900, a synonym for Euenkrates elegans (De Bormans, 1900) [Srivastava 1976].
References
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External links
{{Wikispecies}}
- {{eol|Chelisoches}}
- [http://bugguide.net/node/view/273974 Chelisoches] at Bug Guide
- [http://dermaptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1179517 Chelisoches] at dermaptera.speciesfile.org
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Category:Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder
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