Christmas Island earwig

Short description: Species of earwig

Christmas Island earwig

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Dermaptera
Family:  | Anisolabididae
Genus:  | Anisolabis
Species:  |

A. subarmata

Binomial name
Anisolabis subarmata

(Kirby, 1900)

Synonyms

* Labia subarmata Kirby, 1900

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

## Contents

* 1 Taxonomy
* 2 Biology and conservation
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## 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

* List of Dermapterans of Australia

## References

1. ↑ "Anisolabis subarmata (Kirby)". Ento.csiro.au. http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/system/c_1084.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
2. ↑ "Species Anisolabis subarmata (Kirby, 1900)". Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Anisolabis_subarmata.
3. ↑ Kirby, W. F. (1900). "Order 9--Orthoptera". A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). pp. 144–145. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24862615.
4. ↑ Woinarski, John (2018). A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Extinction in Australia. Csiro Publishing. p. 144. ISBN 9781486308651. https://books.google.com/books?id=ic1qDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT144.

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