Biology:Christmas Island earwig
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Short description: Species of earwig
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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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The Christmas Island earwig (Anisolabis subarmata) is a species of earwig in the family Anisolabididae.[1][2]
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
- ↑ "Anisolabis subarmata (Kirby)". Ento.csiro.au. http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/system/c_1084.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ↑ "Species Anisolabis subarmata (Kirby, 1900)". Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Anisolabis_subarmata.
- ↑ Kirby, W. F. (1900). "Order 9—Orthoptera". A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). pp. 144–145. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24862615.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q5111382 entry
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