Red-legged Earwig Carcinophora occidentalis (Kirby, 1896)
Fauna Portal species: 4651
Carcinophora occidentalis male, dorsal (HBI N17240-5)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2021)
Fauna Portal Image No. 1111Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Western Australia
Appearance
This species is only tentatively referred to Carcinophora occidentalis pending a revision of Australian Anisolabididae.
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1896): Descriptions of new species of Forficulidae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), S. Kenington. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 25: 520 - 529