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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Earwigs (Dermaptera) » Anisolabididae » Euborellia » African Earwig (Euborellia cincticollis)
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Earwig or Webspinner? - Euborellia cincticollis - male
Copyright © 2016 Ray Lemke

Earwig or Webspinner? - Euborellia cincticollis - Male
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
December 18, 2016
Size: Abt 12mm
Found in my house. At first I thought this was a female webspinner, but now I think it's an earwig. I don't see thickened forelegs like a webspinner. The third photo is the same individual after removal outside. Can this be IDed as to species?

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Earwig or Webspinner? - Euborellia cincticollis - male Earwig or Webspinner? Earwig or Webspinner? - Euborellia cincticollis
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Contributed by Ray Lemke on 18 December, 2016 - 5:05pm
Last updated 12 February, 2019 - 7:33pm

Moved tentatively
Moved from Euborellia.
… v belov, 12 February, 2019 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Definitely Euborellia, but there are two other possibilities in AZ and I don't know them well enough

Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 18 December, 2016 - 5:31pm login or register to post comments

Earwig
Now that I look at it more carefully, I think this is probably a ring-legged earwig, Euborellia annulipes. Can this be confirmed?
… Ray Lemke, 18 December, 2016 - 5:23pm login or register to post comments

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