Christmas Island earwig

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]

## Taxonomy

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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

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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

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* List of Dermapterans of Australia

## References

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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.

Taxon identifiers

Anisolabis subarmata|

* Wikidata: Q5111382
* AFD: Anisolabis_subarmata
* BioLib: 578954
* Dermaptera Species File: 890364
* EoL: 10691182
* GBIF: 4392347
* IRMNG: 10696206
* Open Tree of Life: 3510378

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