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L. r. truncata Kirby is the Australian-wide form1 of the cosmopolitan earwig Labidura riparia (Pallas). Snodgrass2 lists literature dealing with the development of the genitalia in several insect orders. His description of the process in the Dermaptera is largely based on the account given by Qadri3 for Forficula auricularia L. (Forficulidae). Snodgrass points out that it is generally held that the genitalia develop from the primary phallic lobes and that the terminal ampullæ of the vasa deferentia are commonly associated with the lobes.
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GILES, E. Independent Development of the Male Gonads and Vasa Deferentia, and the Genitalia of the Australian Earwig, Labidura riparia truncata (Dermaptera : Labiduridae). Nature 204, 1109–1110 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041109a0
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