#4066 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Shore Earwig
🇳🇱 Grote oorworm ·Labidura riparia
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Labidura riparia is a species of earwig in the family Labiduridae, formerly Forficula riparia , characterized by their modified cerci as forceps, and light tan color. They are more commonly known as the striped earwig, due to two dark longitudinal stripes down the length of the pronotum. They are sometimes wrongly referred to as Labidura japonica , although said species is actually a subspecies, Labidura riparia japonica , found only in Japan. L. riparia are a cosmopolitan species...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 43 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,328 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1773 (253 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Shore Earwig
- Nederlands
- Grote oorworm
- scientific name
- Labidura riparia
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Dermaptera
- family
- Labiduridae
- sightings in NL
- 43
- sightings in Europe
- 2,220
- sightings worldwide
- 8,328
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,873
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1773 by Peter Simon Pallas
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 307026, Wikidata Q728526, GBIF 1419912, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.