Ancistrogaster spinax Dohrn, 1862

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 : 213

5.1.1 Ancistrogaster spinax Dohrn, 1862 ( ♂ ♀)

Ancistrogaster spinax Dohrn 1862 a: 229 ; Fig. 1, 1b ( ♂ ♀) [ Mexico (TL)]. Scudder 1876c: 331 [ Mexico]. Bormans 1893: 9 [n. rec. Mexico, Orizaba]. Bormans & Krauss 1900: 89 (key), 90 [ Mexico]. Rehn 1903a: 1 ( ♂ ♀) [n. rec. Teocelo, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Jalapa, Vera Cruz]. Kirby 1904: 36 [ Mexico, Guatemala]. Burr 1908c: 116 [ syn. nov. S. maculifera ; A. luctuosa ; A. devians ] [ Mexico]. Burr 1913b: 87 [ Mexico, Guatemala]. Burr 1911a: 340 [ Guatemala]. Burr 1912b: 104 [ Mexico]. Hebard 1917c: 429 [Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Teocelo, Vera Cruz, Mex.]. Popham & Brindle 1968a: 197 [ Mexico, Guatemala]. Vanschuytbroeck 1969: 19 [ Mexico (det. Burr)]. Reichardt, 1971a: 177. Steinmann 1979a: 165 ( Paralectotypes) [ Mexico]. Steinmann 1982: 82; Fig. 16, 17 [ Mexico and Guatemala]. Steinmann, 1989b: 655 [ Mexico and Guatemala]. Steinmann 1993: 157; Fig. 250–252 [ Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala]. Sakai 2004: 636 [ Guatemala and Mexico (VER, Xalapa, Teocelo)].

Ancistrogaster luctuosus Bormans 1883: 83 ( ♂) [ID error] [does not describe new species] [ Mexico]. Rehn 1901: 219 ( ♀) [ID error] [n. rec. Jalapa, Vera Cruz and Teocelo, Vera Cruz]. Reichardt, 1971a: 176. Steinmann 1993: 162 [ID error] [part Mexico and Centroamerica]. Maes & Haas 2006: 82; Fig. p. 83–85 [ID error] [ Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua (new report), Costa Rica, Panama].

Type material. ♂ ♀ MZPA ( Steinmann 1993).

Known distribution. Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Distribution within Mexico. VER: Mpty. Orizaba, Orizaba; Mpty. Teocelo, Teocelo; Mpty. Xalapa, Xalapa-Enríquez.