Brachylabidinae Burr, 1908
3 genera
29 species
Neotropics, Afrotropics, Oriental, Indoaustralian
Type: Brachylabis: Brachylabis chilensis – Typus lost

Brachylabis Dohrn, 1864
-> Brachylabis canaca Burr, 1914 – New Caledonia
-> Brachylabis carinata (Brindle, 1978) – Zimbabwe
-> Brachylabis chilensis (Blanchard, 1851) – Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Brasil
-> Brachylabis collinsi Brindle, 1980 – Northern Borneo
-> Brachylabis coriacea Burr, 1910 – Southeastern Brasil
-> Brachylabis fuscula Brindle, 1970 – Gabon
-> Brachylabis hincksi (Srivastava, 1981) – Myanmar
-> Brachylabis lenkoi Brindle, 1968 – Southeastern Brasil
-> Brachylabis manawatawhi Giles, 1958 – New Zealand: Three Kings Islands
-> Brachylabis philetas Burr, 1901 – Sri Lanka
-> Brachylabis punctulata (Moreira, 1931) – Southeastern Brasil
-> Brachylabis willeyi (Burr, 1910) – Sri Lanka
-> Brachylabis yaloma Ramamurthi, 1967 – Bismarck Islands: New Britain
Ctenisolabis Verhoeff, 1902
-> Ctenisolabis aciculata Steinmann, 1983 – Myanmar, India: Meghalaya, Northeastern Himalayas, Khasi Hills
-> Ctenisolabis fletcheri Burr, 1910 – Sri Lanka, India: Karnataka, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu
-> Ctenisolabis loebli Steinmann, 1983 – India
-> Ctenisolabis mahunkai Steinmann, 1978 – Paraguay, Southeastern Brasil
-> Ctenisolabis montana (Borelli, 1909) – Costa Rica
-> Ctenisolabis nigra (Scudder, 1876) – Costa Rica, Brasil, Ecuador, French Guiana
-> Ctenisolabis pusilla Steinmann, 1978 – Sri Lanka (no male type known, Srivastava, 2003 states its validity as uncertain)
-> Ctenisolabis ruficollis (Hincks, 1959) – Südafrika, Zimbabwe
-> Ctenisolabis togoensis Verhoeff, 1902 – Togo, Transvaal
-> Ctenisolabis traegaordhi (Burr, 1913) – Natal (South Africa)
Metisolabis Burr, 1910
-> Metisolabis bifoveolata (Bolívar, 1897) – India: Tamil Nadu
-> Metisolabis malgacha (Burr, 1904) – Madagascar
-> Metisolabis milloti (Hincks, 1953) – Madagascar
-> Metisolabis punctata (Dubrony, 1897) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Eastern Australia
-> Metisolabis submetallica (Brindle, 1966) – DR Congo, Zambia, Burundi, Zimbabwe
-> Metisolabis voeltzkovi (Burr, 1908) – Madagascar (Eastern?)

Literature:
Steinmann (1989) Catadermaptera II
Steinmann (1989b) World Catalogue of Dermaptera
Srivastava (2003) Fauna of India II
Heleodoro & Rafael (2023) The taxonomic catalog of the Brazilian fauna: Dermaptera and Phasmatodea (Insecta), with commentaries on species list, types, authorship and distribution. (https://www.scielo.br/j/zool/a/cCFxyLHZS...rN8zH/?lang=en# and https://www.researchgate.net/publication...nd_distribution)
Karthik & Kalleshwaraswamy (2023) An annotated checklist of earwigs (Dermaptera) of South India with two new
records from India (https://www.researchgate.net/publication...ords_from_India)
Dermaptera Species File (2025)
iNaturalist (2025)