Vostox excavatus Nutting & Gumey, 1961

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 : 230-231

6.7.5 Vostox excavatus Nutting & Gumey, 1961 ( ♂ ♀)

Vostox brunneipennis Hebard 1923: 159 [ID error sensu Nutting & Guney 1961: 52] [Venvidio, material rev. in Nutting & Guney 1961].

Vostox etropoli Nutting & Guney 1961: 47 ; Fig. 1–8 (D ♂ ♀) [Santa Catalina Mts. ( 2000–3000 ft.), Pirna Co., Ariz. (TL); NEW MEXICO: Virden, Hidalgo. Co. ARIZONA: Tempe. Jones; Tucson, Pima Co. Wayne Enloe. Tom Embleton; Sabino Canyon, Sta. Catalina Mts., Pima Co. 2 mi. sw. Patagonia ( 4050 ft., Sonoita Creek bottom, willow-cottonwood), Sta. Cruz Co. MEXICO: SINALOA, “Venodio”., 25 mi. w. La Paz (ca. 5oo-foot plateau, 10 mi. sw. San José]. Reichardt, 1970: 88. Brindle 1971b: 524, 536 (Key), 541; Fig. 48 [Southern New Mexico and Arizona to northern Mexico ( Sinaloa; Baja California)]. Steinmann 1989b: 559 [ U.S.A.: Arizona, New Mexico, and California; Mexico]. Steinmann 1990: 321. Sakai 2004: 635 [E.U.A. and Mexico (SIN Venadio; BCS, 25 mi W La Paz)].

Type material. ♂ Holotype , ♂ Allotype NMNH . ♀ paratype in NHMUK .

Known distribution. USA and Mexico.

Distribution within Mexico. BCS: Mpty. La Paz, 25 mi W La Paz. SIN: Mpty. Mazatlán, Colonia El Venadillo, a 8 km center Mazatlán.