Asteia montgomeryi Hardy, 1980

O'Grady, Patrick M & Magnacca, Karl Nicholas, 2014, Studies in Hawaiian Diptera I: New Distributional Records for Endemic Asteia (Asteiidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1010-1010 : 1010

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1010

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scientific name

Asteia montgomeryi Hardy, 1980
status

 

Asteia montgomeryi Hardy, 1980

Asteia montgomeryi Hardy, 1980: 239

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: WB Heed; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Puuwaawaa; verbatimElevation: 2000 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: 16.ii.1973; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: WB Heed; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Puuwaawaa; verbatimElevation: 2000 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: 16.ii.1973; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

This species has been reared from rotting stems of Erythrina sandwichensis Degener (Hawaiian Islands: Hawaii, Puuwaawaa, 2000 ft., WB Heed and SL Montgmery, iv-vi.1973)

Native status

endemic

Distribution

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: Hawaii

Notes

Hardy and Delfinado (1980) [original description; illustration of male genitalia (terminal), antenna (lateral)]; Sabrosky (1989) [Australasian and Oceanian Catalog]; Nishida (2002) [Hawaiian Terrestrial Arthropod Checklist]; Evenhuis (2011) [http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/asteiidae.html, Australasian and Oceanian Catalog, online version].

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asteiidae

Genus

Asteia