Vostox brunneipennis ( Audinet-Serville, 1838 [1839])

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 : 230

6.7.3 Vostox brunneipennis ( Audinet-Serville, 1838 [1839]) ( ♂ ♀)

Psalidophora brunneipennis Audinet-Serville 1838 [1839]: 30 (D?) [sp. nov.] [Amérique boréale. Philadelphie (TL)].

Psalidophora insignis Stål 1855: 349 (D ♀) [sp. nov.] [jun. syn. sensu] [Anliochia in Nova Granada (TL)].

Forficula punctipennis Stål 1858: 304 [sp. nov.] [jun. syn. sensu] [ Rio de Janeiro (TL)].

Spongophora brunneipennis Scudder 1876c: 330 [n. comb.] [n. rec. Eastern and Southern US, Arizona, Mexico]. Bormans 1893: 7; Plate II, Fig. 2, 3 ( ♂ ♀) [n. rec. Mexico, Ventanas en Durango, Orizaba]. Bormans & Krauss 1900: 56 (Key), 57; Fig. 25 [Östliche und südliche Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-Amerika (Pennsylvanien, Virginien, Arizona), Mexico, Zentral-Amerika ( Guatemala)]. Kirby 1904: 30 [N. & Central America]. Burr 1908b: 32 [ Mexico].

Spongiphora geayi Burr 1904: 295 (D ♂) [sp. nov.] [jun. syn. S. brunneipennis sensu Hebard 1917c ; sin jun. V. punctipennis Brindle 1971b ] [ Darien (TL)].

Labia insularis Brunner 1906: 137 (D ♂) [sp. nov.] [jun. syn. sensu Hebard 1917c] [Island of Trinidad (TL)].

Spongiphora insignis Stål , in: Borelli 1909a: 319 ( ♂) [Orizaba ( Messico)].

Vostox brunneipenis Burr 1913b: 51 ; Plate IV, Fig. 17, 17a, 17b [n. comb.] [ Guatemala to Pennsylvania]. Burr 1912b: 86 [ Mexico]. Nutting & Gurney 1961: 47; Fig. 9–14 ( ♂ ♀). Popham & Brindle 1967b: 255 [North and South America]. Vanschuytbroeck 1969: 8 [ Mexico (Sn. Catharina): Linden (det. Burr)]. Reichardt, 1970: 87. Brindle 1971b: 524, 535 (Key), 538; Fig. 33–35, 37, 38 [Central and North America ( Panama northwards to Mexico, and the southern part of the United States …)]. Steinmann 1989b: 556 [ Canada, U.S.A., and Neotropical America]. Steinmann 1990: 316: 575 [new synonym V. punctipennis ]. Sakai 2004: 635 [ Canada, USA, Mexico (VER, Motzorongo, Córdoba, Orizaba; SIN, Venadio(sic)) and South América]. Maes & Haas 2006: 73; Fig. pag. 73 [ USA *, Nicaragua]. Girod & Matzke 2020: 71 [ Canada, United States, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Surinam, French Guiana, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina].

Vostox punctipennis Stål , in: Brindle 1971b: 524, 535 (Key), 537; Fig. 3, 8–10 [jun. syn. Psalidophora insignis , Spongiphora geayi , Labia insularis ].

Type material. Psalidophora brunneipennis Audinet-Serville 1838 [1839] unknown. Psalidophora insignis Stål 1855 (TL Colombia) (NRM). Forficula punctipennis Stål 1858 (TL Brazil) (NRM). Spongiphora geayi Burr 1904 (TL Panama) ( MNHN). Labia insularis Brunner 1906 (TL Trinidad) (BMNH).

Known distribution. Canada to Argentina.

Distribution within Mexico. DUR: Mpty. San Dimas, Ventanas [Villa Corona]. VER: Mpty. Córdoba, Córdoba; Mpty. Orizaba, Orizaba; Mpty. Tezonapa, Motzorongo.