Forficula

Ward, Anna K. G., Busbee, Robert W., Chen, Rachel A., Davis, Charles K., Driscoe, Amanda L., Egan, Scott P., Goldberg, Bailey A. R., Hood, Glen Ray, Jones, Dylan G., Kranz, Adam J., Meadely-Dunphy, Shannon A., Milks, Alyson K., Ott, James R., Prior, Kirsten M., Sheikh, Sofia I., Shzu, Shih-An, Weinersmith, Kelly L., Zhang, Linyi, Zhang, Y. Miles & Forbes, Andrew A., 2022, Borneosa aspera, Zoological Studies 61 (57), pp. 1-30 : 22

Forficula L., 1758 ( Dermaptera : Forficulidae )

Two adult forcifulid earwigs in genus Forficula L. ( Engel 2003) emerged from galls of Amphibolips quercusinanis (Osten-Sacken) one and five days after gall collection. These nocturnal insects may have been using the large, mostly-hollow A. quercusinanis galls as a daytime shelter.

Cecidomyiinae ( Diptera : Cecidomyiidae )

We reared 169 cecidomyiid midges (mean = 7.3, range 1–70) from 23 gall types. Though one possibility is that some small number of cecidomyiid galls were collected alongside oak galls, Redfern and Askew (1998) suggest that cecidoymiids may sometimes be part of the successional fauna of cynipid oak galls, using the gall tissue after the original inhabitants have emerged. Previous records of cecidomyiids reared in cynipid oak gall studies include Lasioptera Meigen and Lestodiplosis Keiffer from C. quercuscornigera ( Eliason and Potter 2000) and unidentified species reared from B. kinseyi and B. pallida ( Forbes et al. 2016; Weinersmith et al. 2020).