Paracosmia gulosa (Scudder, 1876)

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 : 214

5.2.0 Paracosmia gulosa (Scudder, 1876) ( ♂ ♀) nomen dubium stat. nov.

Ancistrogaster gulosa Scudder 1876b: 259 (D ♂ ♀) [in Puebla, Mexico (terra frigida) (TL)]. Scudder 1876c: 330 [ Mexico]. Bormans & Krauss 1900: 90 (Key), 91 [ Mexico (in der kälteren Region, z. B. bei Puebla)]. Rehn 1903b: 308 ( ♂ ♀) [n. rec. Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico]. Kirby 1904: 36 [ Mexico]. Burr 1910a: 459 [n. rec. Mexico: Orizaba, Cordoba, Jalapa].

Sarakas gulosus Burr 1913b: 86 [n. comb.] [ Mexico]. Popham & Brindle 1968a: 197 [n. comb.].

Paracosmia gulosa Hebard 1917c: 428 [n. comb.]. Steinmann, 1989b: 659 [ Mexico, Colombia]. Reichardt, 1971a: 173. Sakai 2004: 636 [ Colombia (?) and Mexico (PUE; VER, Orizaba, Córdoba, Xalapa)].

Paracosmia (?) gulosa Steinmann 1993: 135 [combination restored] [ Mexico].

Notes. In Scudder (1876) the type material is cited to be in the Smithsonian Institution (= NMNH), but when searching its database of the NMNH and ANSP, this material could not be located. The description of this species is similar to Paracosmia (?) impennis ( Bormans 1893) .

The original description is very brief and since no type material was found, this species is considered a nomen dubium stat. nov.