[3] The type specimen of this species is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

[4] White in his original description of the species described it as follows: Deep blackish brown, with fulvous legs; head somewhat triangular, the sides behind the eyes rounded, very deep blackish brown; labrum, cibarial organs and antennae fulvo-testaceous; two fulvous spots on the head, one close to the inside of each eye, a short, fulvous line on the middle of the hind part; antennae with at least nineteen joints, first joint the longest, second very short, third three times the length of second, fourth a little longer than the second, the others gradually increasing in length; prothorax square, fulvous in front, with a short, impressed line in the middle; abdomen widest about the seventh joint, deep blackish brown, the margins slightly fulvous, last segment of abdomen large, with some wide, longitudinal lines above, the forceps short, slightly hooked at the end, with two or three sinuations on the inner edge; legs fulvous, tarsi without apparent pads.

[7][8][4] However other publications state that the species is also found in New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania.

[9] Similar both ecologically and taxonomically to the maritime earwig, this species is commonly found on beaches under stones and debris.

Like most other earwigs, the females care for their young during development, and the larva go through five instars before becoming adults.