Doru (earwig)
Genus of earwigs
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::summary Genus of earwigs ::
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Doru is a genus of earwigs in the family Forficulidae.
Description
Doru can be recognised by having yellow elytra with a black suture.
According to the original description by Malcom Burr, the third and fourth antennal segments are subequal. The elytra are not carinate. The abdomen is subparallel and depressed in shape. The anal segment of the abdomen is transverse, depressed and not sloping. The pygidium is spinous or sharp. In males, the arms of the forceps are slender, removed from the base and not expanded.
Ecology
In North America, these earwigs can be found on grasses and sedges, usually near water.
Species
These 16 species belong to the genus Doru:
- Doru aculeatum (Scudder, 1876) i c g b (spine-tailed earwig)
- Doru albipes (Fabricius, 1787) c g
- Doru beybienkoi Steinmann, 1979 c g
- Doru cincinnatoi Machado, 1967 c g
- Doru davisi Rehn and Hebard, 1914 i c g
- Doru dohrni Steinmann, 1979 c g
- Doru gracilis (Burmeister, 1838) c g
- Doru leucopteryx Burr, 1912 c g
- Doru lineare (Eschscholtz, 1822) i c g
- Doru luteipes (Scudder, 1876) c g
- Doru platensis Borelli, 1912 c g
- Doru robustum Brindle, 1971 c g
- Doru spiculiferum (Kirby, WF, 1891) c g
- Doru taeniatum (Dohrn, 1862) i c g b (lined earwig)
- Doru turbator Steinmann, 1979 c g
- Doru unicolor Brindle, 1971 c g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
Gallery
File:Doru aculeatum.jpg|Doru aculeatum File:Earwigs (10.3897-zookeys.713.15118) Figures 36–45.jpg|Various earwigs; 43 is Doru luteipes, 44 is spermatheca of D. luteipes, 45 is spermatheca of D. lineare File:Doru taeniatum (Forficulidae).jpg|D. taeniatum on foliage File:Doru taeniatum (Forficulidae) 072022.jpg|D. taeniatum on foliage
References
References
- Marshall, Stephan A.. (June 2006). "Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America". Firefly Books.
- "Genus Doru".
- Burr, Malcolm. (1907). "V. A preliminary revision of the Forficulidae (sensu stricto) and of the Chelisochidae, families of the Dermatoptera.". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London.
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