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Species

Spongovostox lewisi (de Bormans, 1903)

Nomenclature (10)

  • Spongiphora lewisi de Bormans, 1903 in Burr, 1903: 234.
  • Labidurodes singularis Shiraki, 1906: 190.
  • Rudrax brindlei Srivastava, 1995 (subjective synonym of Spongiphora lewisi de Bormans, 1903) in Nishikawa & Yoshitomi, 2024: 322. Classification
  • Spongovostox lewisi (de Bormans, 1903) in Kamimura & Gusti, 2026: 320.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Gené, C.G. (1832) Saggio di una Monographia del Forficula indigene. Annali delle Scienze del Regno Lombardo-Veneto, 2, 215–228.
  • Burr, M. (1903) Notes on the Forficularia. - VII. Some hitherto unpublished descriptions of new species, by the late M. Auguste de Bormans. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7(Volume 11), 231–241, 265–270.
  • Shiraki, T. (1906) Neue Forficuliden und Blattiden Japans. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society, 1(2), 183–196.
  • Burr, M. (1911) Dermaptera. In Genera Insectorum. Vol. 122, pp. 1–112. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105421/
  • Shiraki, T. (1928) Dermapteren aus dem Kaiserreich Japan. Insecta Matsumurana, 3(1), 1–25.
  • Steinmann, H. (1989b) Dermaptera: Catadermaptera II. Das Tierreich, 105, 505 pp.
  • Steinmann, H. (1989c) World Catalogue of Dermaptera. In Series Entomologica. Vol. 43, 1–934 pp.
  • Srivastava, G.K. (1995) On the classification of Spongiphoridae (=Labiidae) with a list of species. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 95(1-2), 71–105.
  • Nishikawa, M. & Yoshitomi, H. (2024) New Record of Nesogaster lewisi (de Bormans) (Dermaptera: Spongiphoridae: Nesogastorinae) from Laos, with Note on Rudoraxinae Srivastava. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 30(2), 321–328.
  • Kamimura, Y. & Gusti, M. (2026) Placement of Spongiphora lewisi de Bormans, 1903, an enigmatic earwig species of Spongiphoridae (Insecta, Dermaptera), as revealed by integrative taxonomy. ZooKeys, 1275, 311–331. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1275.182541

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1045
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Etymology:

After Lewis.