Some notes on Parisolabinae (Dermaptera)

Abstract

The genus Pseudisolabis Burr was erected in 1908 for the single New Zealand species P. walkeri Burr, 1908. Subsequently a few further species from India and Java were added (see Burr, 1947, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 16: 60) and finally in 1947 Burr described a new species, P. kosszvigi, from Turkey. As an appendix to Burr's paper the present writer discussed the genital armature of P. kosswigi and P. burri Borelli. At that time however the writer had not seen specimens of the generotype, P. walkeri. Through the kindness of the Director of the Auckland Museum, New Zealand, material of this species is now available and will be reported on more fully in a forthcoming paper on the Dermaptera of New Zealand. For the present it may be stated that Pseudisola bis walkeri is identical with Parisolabis novae-zeelandicte Verhoeff, 1904, and sinks as a synonym. Parisola bis Verhoeff, 1904, must therefore replace the generic name Pseudisolabis Burr, 1908. An examination of the genitalia of the New Zealand species has revealed that it is of a fundamentally different type from that recorded in 1947 for P. kosswigi and P. burri and it is clear that these species therefore cannot be regarded as congeneric with Parisola bis novae-zeelandiae. The following new genus isolaboides is therefore erected for their reception.