Kleter americanus ( Bormans, 1893 )

Estrada-Álvarez, Julio Cesar, Núñez-Bazán, Reinier, Luna, Manuel De & Haas, Fabian, 2025, Taxonomic catalogue of the earwigs (Insecta: Dermaptera) of Mexico, with two new nomina dubia, Zootaxa 5701 (3), pp. 201-246 : 215

5.3.1 Kleter americanus ( Bormans, 1893) ( ♂ ♀)

Opisthocosmia americana Bormans 1893: 8 ; Plate I, Fig. 22, 23 (D ♂ ♀) [ Mexico, Teapa en Tabasco (TL)]. Bormans & Krauss 1900: 94 (key), 97 [Am oberen Amazonen-Strom(?), Mexico]. Kirby 1904: 40 [ Mexico].

Dinex americanus Burr 1913b 94 [n. comb.] [N. and S. America, Mexico]. Popham & Brindle 1968b: 277 [N. & S. America]. Reichardt, 1971a: 179.

Kleter americanus Bridle, 1969: 113 [n. comb.]. Steinmann 1989b: 678 [ Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia. Suriname, Brazil, and Peru]. Steinmann 1993: 229; Fig. 363–365. Sakai 2004: 635 [ Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Surinam, Brasil, Perú and Mexico (TAB, Teapa)]. Girod & Matzke 2020: 64 [ Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Surinam, Brazil, Peru and French Guiana].

Type material. ♂ ♀ NHMUK(?).

Known distribution. Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Surinam, Brazil, Peru and French Guiana.

Distribution within Mexico. TAB: Mpty. Teapa, Teapa.