Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 75. (Budapest 1983)
Steinmann, H.: A study of the higher taxa of the Chelisochidae (Dermaptera)
External paramere of male genitalia widest distally. — Types-species: Tauropygia trideritata BRINDLE, 1970 (Solomon Island) Tauropygia BRINDLE, 1970 15 (14) Tegmina longer, posterior margin not obliquely truncate; wings visible. Male forceps otherwise shaped. 16 (17) Male forceps similar in shape and length to those of the female, those of the male with inner teeth, pygidium of both sexes excised on posterior margin, that of female narrower than that of male. External paramere of male genitalia widest medially. — Type-species: Gvessitolabis delicattda BRINDLE, 1970. Species: delicatida BRINDLE, 1970 (Solomon Island), gurneyiBRINDLE, 1972 (Solomon Island) Gressitolabis BRINDLE, 1970 17 (16) Male and female forceps dissimilar in length and shape; pygidia normally sexually dimorphic. External paramere of male genitalia parallel-sided except at apices. — Type-species: Adiathella lingua BRINDLE, 1970. Species: incisa BRINDLE, 1970(Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, Popamansiu), lingua BRINDLE, 1970 (Solomon Islands, Suta, Guadalcanal), philippinensis SRIVASTAVA, 1976 (Philippines: Mindanao), spinosa BRINDLE, 1970 (Solomon Islands. New Georgia) Adiathella BRINDLE, 1970 18 (13) Tibiae sulcate of flattened for at least distal 1/4. 19 (20) Legs long and slender, the third reaching at least to the 7th abdominal segment or further. Antennae with about 20 joints; third equal in length to fourth and fifth united. Head tumid, postfrontal and coronal sutures distinct. -— Type-species: Chelisoches pulchripennis BORMANS, 1883. Species: chinensis STEINMANN, 1974 (China: Fukien), koorgensis HEBARD, 1923 (India, Malaya :Perak), pulchripennis (BORMANS, 1883) (Burma, Vietnam, Sumatra Borneo, New Guinea) Exypnus BURR, 1907 20 (19) Legs short or moderately long. 21 (22) Antennae thicker, the 4th and 5th joints shorter than the 3rd, often globular, all more or less thickened at apex; antennae 15-20 jointed. Head tumid, postfrontal and coronal sutures distinct. — Type-species: Forficula morio FABRICIUS, 1775. Species: annulatus BURR, 1906 (New Guinea), ater BORMANS, 1900 (North Australia), australiens (Guillon, 1841) (Northern Australia ,New Guinea), bimammatus HEBARD, 1929 (Batu, Caves, Selangor), brevipennis BORELLI, 1923](PhiIippines), 'ca/opteryo: GÜNTHER, 1929 (New Guinea), cheesmanae HINCKS. 1952 (Banks Islands), cfwpardi HINCKS, 1953 (Madagascar), diodontus RAMAMURTHI, 1967 (Bismarck Islands), elegáns (BORMANS, 1900) (Sumatra), elegáns var. inermis BOESEMAN, 1954 (Java), elegans var. burri BOESEMAN, 1954 (Java), flavipennis (Fabricius, 1793) (West Africa), formosanus BURR, 1912 (Formosa), fuscipennis (de HAAN, 1842) (Sumatra), handschini GÜNTHER, 1934 (Australia), imitator RAMAMURTHI, 1967 (Bismarck Islands), kimberkyensis MJÖBERG, 1913 (N. W. Australia), lilyanus HOLDHAUS, 1908 (Samoa), malgachus BORMANS. 1903 (Madagascar), morio (FABRICIUS, 1775) (Cosmopolitan), paravicini GÜNTHER, 1933 (Solomon Islands), persimilis MENOZZI, 1933 (Sumatra), rubriceps (BURR, 1900) (Java, Borneo), semirufus BORELLI, 1926 (Malaysia), sobrius BORMANS, 1884 (Sumatra) Chelisoches SCUDDER, 1876 22 (21) Antennae slender, all joints slender and cylindrical or semi-pyroform 4th and 5th longer than 3rd. 23 (24) Long and slender earwigs; forceps as long as the abdomen. Tegmina short, wings absent; abdomen depressed, parallel-sided laterally. — Type-species : Auchenomus birmanus BORMANS, 1888 (India, Burma, China: Yunnan) Solenosoma BURR, 1907
