Galapagos Species Database
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Paralabella annulata
Tijereta, Earwig
Listed as Labia annulata in Burr (1911) and in recent papers, but there is no doubt of the identity of the type, and this has the annulate antennae, with some distal segments white, which explains the specific name (Brindle, 1981).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Dermaptera
Superfamily
Forficuloidea
Family
Spongiphoridae
Genus
Paralabella
Species
annulata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn: Forficula annulata. Es necesario revisar también la especie Euborellia annulata (Fabricius, 1793), ya que en algunas publicaciones aparece como sinónimo de Forficula annulata.
- Brindle, A. (1981) The types of Dermaptera described by Fabricius Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. 93(1), 14-16.
- Peck, S.B. (2001) Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 278 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Paralabella annulata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25017. Accessed 5 November 2026.