Anisolabis howarthi

{{Short description|Species of earwig}}

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| genus = Anisolabis

| species = howarthi

| authority = Brindle, 1979{{cite web|url=http://macaulaylibrary.org/browse/scientific/10998087 |title=ML : Browse Anisolabis howarthi |publisher=Macaulaylibrary.org |date= |accessdate=2009-09-07}}

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Anisolabis howarthi is a blind, troglobite species of earwig in the genus Anisolabis, the family Anisolabididae, and the order Dermaptera.{{cite journal|url=http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/pdf/brindle1980.pdf|accessdate=2009-09-07|title=Pacific Insects: The Cavernicolous Fauna of Hawaiian Lava Tubes|journal=Pacific Insects|volume=21|issue=4|pages=261–274|last=Brindle|first=A}}{{cite web|url=http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/A/Anisolabis_howarthi/ |title=Anisolabis howarthi |publisher=Zipcodezoo.com |accessdate=2009-09-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612112156/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/A/Anisolabis_howarthi/ |archivedate=2012-06-12 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=186047 |title=ITIS Standard Report Page: Anisolabis howarthi |publisher=Itis.gov |date= |accessdate=2009-09-07}} The species is native to Hawaii, and was first classified by Brindle in 1979. According to a paper published by him in 1980 in the journal Pacific Insects, the species is first known true troglobite earwig; while there are other blind species that live underneath soil or humus, this is the first to actually inhabit a cave.{{cite journal|last=Brindle|first=A.|title=A new genus and species of blind Dermaptera from the Galapagos Islands.|pages=171–76|journal=Mission Zool. Beige Aux Iles Galapagos et en Ecuador. Part 1. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren|year=1968}}{{cite journal|last=Brindle|first=A.|year=1975|title=Dermaptera from Reunion, with the description of a new genus and species of blind Dermaptera.|pages=763–66|journal=Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. |series=New Series|volume=II|issue=4 |doi=10.1080/21686351.1975.12278563 }}