Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 75. (Budapest 1983)

Steinmann, H.: A study of the higher taxa of the Chelisochidae (Dermaptera)

4 (1) Lateral margins of tegmina without a ridge-like edge. Of extremely varying shape and with considerable sexual dimorphism, even a number of species displaying a certain range of individual (or subspecific?) variation. Tibia smooth or striated, nearly reaching end of abdomen, or shorter and extending only to half its length. Forceps highly varying; short and simple, or elongate, serrately dentate on their inner margins along a short or a longer section. Anterior margin of external paramere of male genitalia strongly constricted or normal. Distribution everywhere except the American continent. — Type-genus: Chelisoches SCUDDER, 1876 Chelisochinae BURR 1907 5 (12) Tibiae not obviously flattened laterally. 6 (7) Tarsi long and slender, together about as long as pronotum broad. Antennae with 20 joints, third joint long, but shorter than the fourth and fifth united. Head tumid, postfrontal and coronal sutures distinct. Male forceps ample, stout, depressed and broad; those of female elongate and less stout. — Type-species: Chelisoches shelf or di BURR, 1900. Species: dravidius BURR. 1910 (South India), glaucopterus (BORMANS. 1894) (Burma), nigrocastaneus BURR, 1910 (India), proreoides RAMAMURTHI. 1967 (Bismarck Island), shelfordi (BURR. 1900) (Borneo, Malaysia. India: Sikkim), tenebrator (KIRBY, 1891) (India) Adiathetus BURR, 1907 7 (6) Tarsi shorter than the width of the pronotum. 8 (9) Body strong depressed. Antennae with fourth joint scarcely longer than broad, fifth about equal to the sixth. Head smooth, depressed. Tegmina and wings ample, smooth. — Type-species: Mecomera kervillei BURR, 1905 (Java, India) Lamprophorella BURR, 1911 9 (8) Body not strongly depressed. 10 (11) Head depressed, postfrontal and coronal sutures indistinct; occiput tumid on each side. Tegmina and wings well developed. Male forceps depressed, arcuate. The genus is Oriental and Australian in distribution together with some records from some Pacific islands. •— Type-species: Chelisoches feae BORMANS, 1894. Species: bidentatus RAMAMURTHI, 1965 (Burma), crassus BORELLI, 1926 (Philippines), dohertyi (BURR, 1899) (Celebes), esaki MENOZZI, 1941 (Micronesia), feae (BORMANS, 1894) (South China, Burma, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea, New Zealand), fuscus (BORELLI, 1927) (Sumatra), kempi BURR, 1913 (North India), kozlovi SEMENOV et BEY-BIENKO, 1934 (China, Mongolia), melanocephalus (DOHRN, 1865) (India: Sikkim, Assam, Java), nigrorufus (BURR, 1902) (New Guinea: Papua, Micronesia, Melanesia), papuensis BURR, 1909 (New Guinea: Papua), quadrituberculatus BURR. 1915 (Simalur Island), semiluteus (BORMANS, 1899) (Java), singhi KAPOOR. 1966 (N.W.Himalayas), tenebrosus BRINDLE, 1968 (Philippines), tezpurensis SRIVASTAVA, 1969 (India), tigris (BURR, 1913) (India), variicornis (BORMANS, 1903) (Celebes), versicolor BORELLI. 1932 (Philippines), werneriSRIVASTAVA, 1978 (Philippines) Hamaxas BURR, 1907 11 (10) Head smooth, postfrontal and coronal sutures present. Tegmina and wings well developed. Male forceps short, arcuate, swollen at base, inner margins with indistinct senticles at base. -— Type-species: Sphitigolabis xariegata KIRBY, 1891. Species: boesemani STEINMANN, 1981 (Sumatra), simplex RAMAMURTHI, 1967 (Bismarck -Islands), variegation (KIRBY. 1801) (West Africa: Sierra Leone. Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Congo Republic, and Sumatra. Java) Euenkrates REHN, 1927 12 (5) Tibiae sulcate or flattened only at extreme apex or for at least distal 1/4. 13 (18) Tibiae sulcate of flattened only at extreme apex. 14 (15) Tegmina short posterior margin obliquely truncate; wings absent. Male forceps undulate and each branch with 3 teeth. Female forceps with long slender branches.