Christmas Island earwig

The Christmas Island earwig (Anisolabis subarmata) is a species of earwig in the family Anisolabididae.[1][2]

Christmas Island earwig
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Family: Anisolabididae
Genus: Anisolabis
Species:
A. subarmata
Binomial name
Anisolabis subarmata
Synonyms
  • Labia subarmata Kirby, 1900

Taxonomy

The Christmas Island earwig was described as a new species in 1900 by English entomologist William Forsell Kirby. The holotype had been collected by Charles William Andrews on Christmas Island. Kirby placed it in the genus Labia, with a scientific name of Labia subarmata.[3]

Biology and conservation

Very little is known about the Christmas Island earwig, as it is one of twenty-four invertebrate species endemic to Christmas Island that have not been detected since 1902.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Anisolabis subarmata (Kirby)". Ento.csiro.au. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
  2. "Species Anisolabis subarmata (Kirby, 1900)". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  3. Kirby, W. F. (1900). "Order 9—Orthoptera". A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). pp. 144–145.
  4. Woinarski, John (2018). A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Extinction in Australia. Csiro Publishing. p. 144. ISBN 9781486308651.


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