Anisolabis breviforceps Brindle, 1980:269
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered?
Last record: August 1900 (Brindle, 1980:269)
Recorded alive on 8 February 2023 by Joel Melia (BioDiversity4All research grabed photographic observation)
Brindle (1980:273) writes that: "The species of the perkinsi group now appear to be rare; the specimens examined date from 1891 to 1928 and Dr F. G. Howarth (in litt.) has mentioned that some species may now be extinct.".
However, he does not explicitly mention which species in the perkinsi group these are.
Distribution
Mt. Tantalus, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Brindle, A. (1980). The cavernicolous fauna of Hawaiian lava tubes. 12. A new species of blind troglobitic earwig (Dermaptera: Carcinophoridae), with a revision of the related surface-living earwigs of the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Insects 21(4): 261-274.
Other references:
Burr, M. (1910). The Dermaptera (earwigs) of the United States National Museum. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 38: 443-467.
Hebard, M. (1922). Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Hawaii. Occ. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 7(14): 305-79.
Sakai, S. (1982). A new proposed classification of the Dermaptera with special reference to the check list of the Dermaptera of the world. Daito Bunka University 20: 1-108.
Steinmann, H. (1989). World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Series Entomologica 43: 1-934.
https://dermaptera.speciesfile.org/otus/890339/overview
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