Titanolabidinae Srivastava, 1982 1 genus 5 species Australia, India Type: Titanolabis: Titanolabis colossea – Paratypus in Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Poland)
Titanolabis Burr, 1910 -> Titanolabis bormansi (Srivastava, 1982) – Australia: New South Wales -> Titanolabis centaurea Steinmann, 1985 – Australia: Queensland, Western Australia -> Titanolabis colossea (Dohrn, 1864) – Australia: Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland; New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji -> Titanolabis maindroni (Borelli, 1911) – India -> Titanolabis myanmarensis Engel & Haas, 2007 –
Under Titanolabis here: Emiliyamma, K.G., Das, T., Dey, S.L.,Hegde, V.D.(2024).Fauna of India Checklist: Arthropoda: Insecta: Dermaptera. Version 1.0. Zoological Survey India. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/Fauna/1/2023/ and here: Karthik, C. M., Kalleshwaraswamy, C. M. (2023): An annotated checklist of earwigs (Dermaptera) of South India with two new records from India. Zootaxa 5330 (4): 561-585, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.4.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5330.4.5
Thanks for the links. Can you send me the paper from Zootaxa? I don't have access. There are several species of different genera under the genus Anisolabis in DSF...I don't always know which ones are correct and which ones belong to another genus, I'll add the species! On the other hand, the checklist for India has also some mistakes, like Paralabella curvicauda is mentioned as Circolabia curvicauda...
But since India, Australia and Antarctica formed a continent 100 million years ago, a distribution in India and Australia, but not Indonesia would make sense.
Edit: Srivastava mentions it also in this work from 1990: Srivastava (1990) Studies on Oriental Dermaptera preserved in the California Academy of Science, San Francisco, USA (https://recordsofzsi.com/index.php/zsoi/...w/161451/110858)
These checklist follows Srivastava's view described in Fauna of India. Many species of Spongiphoridae have been transferred by him from one genus to another. So it is not real mistake, just show us that many things need to be clarified in Dermaptera taxonomy and systematics. P. curvicauda have at least 3 different current names proposed by different authors: Paralabella curvicauda (in genus Paralabella Steinmann 1990 followed by most of authors), Circolabia curvicauda (Srivastava and Indian authors consider species to belong to Circolabia Steinmann 1987), Paralabellula curvicauda (Kevan in Insects of Micronesia explained that Paralabella is not valid and established new genus Paralabellula Kevan 1997 followed by Kamimura and Kocarek). I am not sure if we need to ask DSF to change it, may be Petr Kocarek may help to clarify.
The name of the species from India is Titanolabis maidroni not maidronis.
Thanks for clarifying that! Would indeed be interesting to see DNA comparisons between the Spongiphoridae species...but this will take a long time.
I corrected the name, but you had a typo too, it's maindroni with two n. Interestingly Labidurodes orientalis is listed as a synonym by Srivastava, in DSF it's still listed as Anisolabis orientalis.
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