Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 79. (Budapest 1987)

Steinmann, H.: A new reclassification of the family Chelisochidae (Dermaptera)

flattened laterally, or sulcate or flattened only at extreme apex, or tibiae sulcate or flattened at least in distal 1/4. Male genitalia normally developed, with a distal lobe, and external parameres varying. Type-genus : Chelisoches SCUDDER, 1876. IDENTIFICATION KEY TO THE GENERA 1 (8) Tibiae not obviously furrowed, flattened laterally. 2 (3) Tarsi long and slender together about as long as the width of pronotum. Antennae with 20 joints; third joint long, but shorter than the joints 4 and 5 combined. Head tumid, postfrontal and coronal sutures distinct. Male forceps ample, stout, depressed and broad; those of female elongate and less stout. — Type-species : Chelisoches shelfordi BURR, 1900. Species : dravidius BURR, 1910 (South India), glaucopterus (BORMANS, 1888) (India, Burma, Vietnam, South China), metallicus SRIVASTAVA, 1985 (India), nigrocastaneus BURR. 1910 (India), proreoides RAMAMURTHI, 1967 (New Britain), shelfordi (BURR, 1900) (Oriental, Region), tenehrator (KIRBY, 1891) (India) Adiathetus BURR, 1907 3 (2) Tarsi shorter than the width of the pronotum. 4 (5) Body strongly depressed. Antennae with fourth joint scarcely longer than broad; fifth joint about equal to the sixth. Head smooth, depressed. Tegmina and wings ample, smooth. — Type-species : Mecomera kervillei BURR, 1905 (India. Java) Lamprophorella BURR, 1911 5 (4) Body not strongly depressed. 6 (7) 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 (South India), crassus BORELLI, 1926 (Mindoro), dohertyi (BURR, 1899) (Celebes and South India), feae (BORMANS, 1894) (Burma, Malaysia, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand, Borneo, Java, Vietnam, South-Western China), fletcheri (HEBARD, 1923) (India), fuscus (BORELLI, 1927) (Sumatra), kenipi BURR, 1913 (India), kozlovi SEMENOV et BEY-BIENKO, 1934 (Central Mongolia, China), melanocephalus (DOHRN, 1865) (India, Burma, Vietnam, Java), nigrorufus (BURR, 1902) (New Guinea, Society Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti, Bismarck Islands, Solomon Islands, Philippine Islands), pusillus (BORELLI, 1918) (Philippine Islands), semiluteus (BORMANS, 1899) (Java), singhi KAPOOR, 1966 (Himalayas), tenebrosus BRINDLE, 1968 (Philippine Islands: Siargao), varicornis (BORMANS, 1903) (Celebes), versicolor BORELLI, 1923 (Philippine Islands: Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro), werneri SRIVASTAVA, 1978 (Philippine Islands) Hamaxas BURR, 1907 7 (6) Head smooth, postfrontal and coronal sutures present. Tegmina and wings well developed. Male forceps short, arcuate, swollen at base, inner margins at base with indistinct denticles. — Type-species : Sphingolabis variegata KIRBY, 1891. Species : boesemani STEINMANN, 1981 (Sumatra), elegáns (BORMANS, 1900) (Sumatra, Java), simplex RAMAMURTHI, 1967 (New Britain), variegatum (KIRBY, 1891) (Sierra Leone, Ghana, Cameroon, South Nigeria, French Congo, Angola, Sumatra and Java — after POPHAM 1968) Euenkrates RCHN, 1927 8 (1) Tibiae sulcate or flattened only at extreme apex, or at least in distal 1/4. 9 (14) Tibiae sulcate of flattened only at extreme apex. 10 (11) Tegmina short, posterior margins obliquely truncate; wings absent. Male forceps undulate and each branch with 3 teeth. Female forceps with long, slender branches.