Species Chelisoches morio - Black Earwig

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

Chelisochides morio - Chelisoches morio - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Dermaptera (Earwigs)

Family Chelisochidae (Black Earwigs)

Genus Chelisoches

Species morio (Black Earwig)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chelisoches morio (Fabricius 1775)

Identification

Fully-winged (good flier), jet-black earwig with tarsi and one or two apical antennomeres lighter (contrasting in living specimens but often darkening in preserved ones). (Some Anisolabididae show a similar pattern.) The second tarsal segment extends under the first, but isn't wide as in the Forficulidae, and it has brush-like hairs underneath.

Range

Native to many Pacific islands; introduced into Pacific Northwest, CA and FL (likely from Hawaii), and many areas worldwide, esp. tropical(1)(2)

Food

Predatory species(2)

Works Cited

1.	Choate P. M. () The order Dermaptera (earwigs) in Florida and the United States

2.	The Earwigs of California (Order Dermaptera) R.L. Langston & J.A. Powell. 1975. Bull. Calif. Insect Surv. 20: 1-25.

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 9 May, 2009 - 8:33pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 29 January, 2021 - 6:47pm

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