A new greenhouse invader: the first report of the alien ring-legged earwig, Euborellia annulipes (Dermaptera, Anisolabididae) in Serbia, with the first checklist of earwigs of the country

Abstract

The ring-legged earwig Euborellia annulipes (Lucas, 1847) is recorded for the first time on the territory of Serbia. The species was found in the greenhouse of Jevremovac Botanical Garden in Belgrade and represents the second allochthonous invertebrate species registered in this greenhouse, after an exotic millipede. In total, 10 specimens of ring-legged earwig were found in the sections of the greenhouse where tropical and subtropical plants are cultivated. The first checklist of earwigs of Serbia was compiled and notes on autochthonous species are given.

DNA barcoding of Japanese earwig species (Insecta, Dermaptera), with sequence diversity analyses of three species of Anisolabididae

“… Euborellia annulipes is also frequent in maritime environments and has been recorded from almost all islands in the tropics or subtropics, including oceanic archipelagos ( Hebard 1933a , Hebard 1933b , Kevan 1965 , Brindle 1968 , Brindle 1969a , Brindle 1969b , Nishikawa 1969 , Brindle 1970 , Brindle 1972 , Brindle 1976 , Brindle 1980 , Kevan and Vickery 1997 , Nishikawa 2020b ). For E. annulipes , artificial transportation of living plants is also considered to contribute to their cosmopolitan distribution in warm-temperate to tropical zones worldwide and their sporadic establishment in greenhouses in colder zones ( Brindle 1966 , Brindle 1969a , Kocarek et al 2015 , Nishikawa 2016 , Vujić et al 2022 ). Interestingly, these maritime inhabitants showed notably higher sequence diversity than L. minor (Fig.…”