Species Detail - Common Earwig (Forficula auricularia) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Grasshoppers, Crickets and Allied Insects (Orthoptera) of Ireland".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Forficula auricularia
Common Earwig
Forficula bipunctata, Forficula borealis, Forficula caucasica, Forficula forcipata, Forficula infumata, Forficula major, Forficula media, Forficula neglecta, Forficula parallela
N/A
foaur
(Linnaeus, 1758)
insect - earwig (Dermaptera)
Species
628
368
120
01/01/1693
22/12/2019
19 January (recorded in 2006)
31 December (recorded in 2005)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Allied Insects (Orthoptera) of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Earwig (Forficula auricularia), accessed 31 January 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/204/Species/184631>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)