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Genus Vostox

Representative Images

Is this an earwig? - Vostox apicedentatus - male Vostox apicedentatus (Toothed Earwig)? - Vostox apicedentatus Earwig - Vostox brunneipennis - male Vostox sp. - Vostox brunneipennis - male Toothed Earwig - Vostox apicedentatus - male Vostox apicedentatus ? - Vostox apicedentatus Vostox brunneipennis? - Vostox brunneipennis Vostox apicedentatus? - Vostox apicedentatus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Dermaptera (Earwigs)
Family Spongiphoridae (Little Earwigs)
Subfamily Spongiphorinae
Genus Vostox

Explanation of Names

Vostox Burr 1911

Numbers

3 spp. in our area(1), 24 total(2)

Identification

key to species in (3)

Range

New World, mostly neotropical(2); in our area:
V. brunneipennis e.US, OK‒TX(1)
V. excavatus AZ‒NM
V. apicedentatus s.CA‒w.TX(4)

Works Cited

1.Choate P. M. () The order Dermaptera (earwigs) in Florida and the United States
2.Hopkins H., Maehr M.D., Haas F., Lesley S.D. Dermaptera species file. Version 5.0
3.A new Earwig in the genus Votox (Dermaptera: Labiidae) from The Southwestern United States and Mexico
W. L. Nutting, Ashely B. Gurney. 1961. Psyche, 68(2-3): 45-52.
4.The Earwigs of California (Order Dermaptera)
R.L. Langston & J.A. Powell. 1975. Bull. Calif. Insect Surv. 20: 1-25.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 17 July, 2007 - 8:29pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 June, 2025 - 12:06am

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