Doru albipes (Fabricius 1787)

Doru albipes (Fabricius)

Forficula albipes Fabricius, 1787, p. 224 [West Indies].

Forficula bimaculata Beauvois, 1805, p. 165 [San Domingo].

Phaulex albipes (Fabricius), Burr, 1911b, p. 78.

Doru bimaculata (Beauvois), Burr, 1911b, p. 79.

Doru albipes (Fabricius), Rehn and Hebard, 1917, p. 649.— Menozzi, 1931, p. 324.

Doru bimaculatum (Beauvois), Menozzi, 1931, p. 325.

Recorded from both the Greater and Lesser Antilles —Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Tortola, Dominica, and St. Vincent.

LENGTH.—Body 8–15 mm, forceps 2.5–10 mm (males), 2–3 mm (females). Head black; antennae brown, basal segments yellow; pronotum yellow with black longitudinal stripes of varying width; elytra dark brown or blackish, with a large yellow anterior spot; wings yellow; legs yellow; abdomen blackish; forceps dark red. Last tergite of male with four tubercles arranged transversely near the posterior margin. Male forceps evenly curved or sinuate, without any inner teeth on the branches; the branches variable in length; pygidium triangular, or with the apex produced into a short spine; forceps of female short, branches more or less straight, inner margin broader medially; pygidium small, rounded.

MATERIAL.—Dominica, Clarke Hall, 8 May 1964, O. S. Flint, Jr., 19; 26–30 November 1964, P. J. Spangler, 1 ; 1–7 December 1964, P. J. Spangler, 2 . 2 ; 5 February 1965, J. F. G. Clarke and Thelma M. Clarke, 1 . 2 ; Hodges R. Mouth, Swamp Forest, 27 February 1965, W. W. Wirth, 1 ; Clarke Hall Est. 16 July 1965, D. M. Anderson, 1 ; 6 September 1965, D. M. Anderson 2 ; 19 April 1966, R. Gagne, 1 ; Pont Casse, 23–27 October 1966, A. B. Gurney, 2 .

WORLD DISTRIBUTION.—West Indies.

List of Dermaptera recorded from Dominica