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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Earwigs (Dermaptera) » Common Earwigs (Forficulidae) » Doru » Spine-tailed Earwig (Doru aculeatum)
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Earwig - Doru aculeatum - male
Copyright © 2005 Stephen_WV

Earwig - Doru aculeatum - Male
East of Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia, USA
May 15, 2005
I rarely see earwigs under bark. Yesterday, though, in peeling back some bark on American Hornbeam, there was nothing much there but Earwigs.
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Contributed by Stephen_WV on 17 May, 2005 - 6:01am
Last updated 23 December, 2009 - 8:31pm

Doru aculeatum (Scudder); the only sp. in that area
Moved from Doru.
… v belov, 23 December, 2009 - 8:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Earwigs.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 9 December, 2008 - 9:45pm login or register to post comments

Doru?
The yellow-on-the-sides,black-down-the-middle color pattern would seem to be characteristic of the genus. The clincher would be whether the 2nd tarsal segment extends under the distal one, and is wider than it. Such a characteristic would make it Forficulidae, and the only other US genera in Forficulidae can be eliminated easily. Unfortunately, this image doesn't seem to have enough detail in the right places.

Even so, a search for male Doru images will turn up ones with pretty much identical forceps.
… Chuck Entz, 22 December, 2006 - 9:09pm login or register to post comments

 
i agree with the ID, male Doru
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… v belov, 6 July, 2008 - 7:55am login or register to post comments

Trophy male:-)
Wow, what a set of forceps on this guy! This is not a European earwig, either, but I'm not sure what alternatives there are in your area. Nice portrait.
… Eric R. Eaton, 17 May, 2005 - 1:01pm login or register to post comments

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