Anisolabis breviforceps

[Melanie]

Possible extinct earwig from Oahu, Hawaii. Not seen since 1900.

Brindle, A., 1980: The cavernicolous fauna of hawaiian lava tubes 12. a new blind troglobitic earwig anisolabis howarthi new species dermaptera carcinophoridae with a revision of the related surface living earwigs of the hawaiian islands usa. Pacific Insects 21(4): 261-274

hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/pdf/brindle1980.pdf

dermaptera.speciesfile.org/otus/890339/overview

[Melanie]

From the book

The Conservation of Insects and their habits. 15th Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society of London
14-15 September 1989 at the Department of Physics Lecture Theatre Imperial College, London
ACADEMIC PRESS Harcourt Brace, 1991

by N. M. Collins and J. A. Thomas

In Hawaii three earwigs, Anisolabis spp., were described from museum specimens and apparently are now extinct perhaps from the impacts of introduced species (Brindle, 1980)