The Christmas Island earwig (Anisolabis subarmata) is a species of earwig in the family Anisolabididae.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Dermaptera |
| Family: | Anisolabididae |
| Genus: | Anisolabis |
| Species: | A. subarmata
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| Anisolabis subarmata | |
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Taxonomy
editThe 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
editVery 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Anisolabis subarmata (Kirby)". Ento.csiro.au. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^ "Species Anisolabis subarmata (Kirby, 1900)". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
- ^ Kirby, W. F. (1900). "Order 9—Orthoptera". A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). pp. 144–145.
- ^ 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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