Mecomera brunnea Audinet-Serville, 1838

Girod, Christophe & Matzke, Danilo, 2020, Annotated checklist of the Dermaptera (Insecta) of French Guiana, Zoosystema 42 (4), pp. 57-76 : 66-67

Mecomera brunnea Audinet-Serville, 1838 [1839] ( Fig. 8A )

Mecomera brunnea Audinet-Serville, 1838 [1839]: 54.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — French Guiana, male, MNHN [not examined] .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 2 specimens ( Fig. 8 A ) .

French Guiana • 1 ♂; Apatou , PK 25; 9.I.2014; SEAG com.; coll. CGIR • 1 ♂; environs de Cayenne, Montagnes de Montsinéry ; II.1902; F. Geay leg.; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Bolivia, French Guiana, Costa Rica, Nicaragua ( Steinmann 1989b).

REMARK

This species was described from French Guiana. The type specimen was not found in the MNHN collections. It is uncertain whether the valid name is Mecomera brunnea or Mecomera plana (Illiger, 1838) . As for all Sparattinae , this species probably inhabits under bark of trees.

Figures

FIG. 8. — A, Mecomera brunnea Audinet-Serville, 1838 [1839], male; B, Sparatta semirufa Kirby, 1896; C, Marava championi (de Bormans, 1893). Scale bars: 1.0 mm.