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Ring legged earwig

Euborellia annulipes (Lucas, 1847)

Status not recordedinsects

The ring legged earwig (Euborellia annulipes) is a species in the family Anisolabididae, order Dermaptera. Source checklists list it for 2 countries: India and Portugal.

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Quick facts about the ring legged earwig

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
2 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the ring legged earwig live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The ring legged earwig is listed for 2 countries.

IndiaPortugal
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. India
  2. Portugal

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the ring legged earwig as introduced in 9 countries.

  1. Belgium
  2. Croatia
  3. Denmark
  4. Ecuador
  5. Germany
  6. Ireland
  7. Netherlands
  8. South Africa
  9. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the ring legged earwig endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the ring legged earwig classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDermaptera
  5. familyAnisolabididae
  6. genusEuborellia
  7. SpeciesEuborellia annulipes (Lucas, 1847)

Synonyms Anisolabis annulicornis, Anisolabis annulipes, Anisolabis antennata, Anisolabis eteronoma, Anisolabis fallax, Anisolabis nana, Anisolabis tripolitana, Euborelia annulipes, Euborellia annulipes, Euborellia variicornis, Forcinella annulicornis, Forficesila annulipes, Forficula annulicornis, Forficula equestris, Forficula varicornis

Other names and names in other languages (18)
  • Ring-legged earwigEnglish
  • TuinoorkruiperAfrikaans
  • أبو مقص مطوق الأرجلArabic
  • škvor jižníCzech
  • Südlicher OhrwurmGerman
  • Tijerilla de patas anilladasSpanish
  • Forficule anneléFrench
  • コヒゲジロハサミムシJapanese
  • 애흰수염집게벌레Korean
  • RingpootoorwormDutch
  • Tesourinha-pretaPortuguese
  • Уховёртка кольчатоногаяRussian
  • sydlig tvestjärtSwedish
  • 環紋肥螋Chinese
  • TijeretaSpanish
  • Forficule anneléeFrench
  • Perce-oreille à pattes anneléesFrench
  • Perce-oreille anneléFrench

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the ring legged earwig

Other species in the same genus Euborellia.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the ring legged earwig live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the ring legged earwig for 2 countries: India and Portugal. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the ring legged earwig an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the ring legged earwig as introduced in 9 countries, including Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador and Germany, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the ring legged earwig?

The ring legged earwig (Euborellia annulipes) belongs to the family Anisolabididae in the order Dermaptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Ring legged earwig (Euborellia annulipes). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/ring-legged-earwig

MLA

“Ring legged earwig (Euborellia annulipes).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/ring-legged-earwig.

BibTeX
@misc{ring_legged_earwig_2026,
  title = {Ring legged earwig (Euborellia annulipes)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ring-legged-earwig},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}