Asteia hawaiiensis Grimshaw, 1901

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

Asteia hawaiiensis Grimshaw, 1901

Asteia hawaiiensis Grimshaw, 1901: 73

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: no collector given; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kona; verbatimElevation: 3500-400 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: vi-vii.1892; Record Level: institutionCode: BMNH Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: no collector given; individualCount: 4; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kona; verbatimElevation: 3500-400 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: vi-vii.1892; Record Level: institutionCode: BMNH Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: no collector given; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Olaa; Event: verbatimEventDate: xi.1896; Record Level: institutionCode: BMNH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: OH Swezey; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Glenwood; Identification: identifiedBy: EH Bryan; Event: eventDate: 3.ii.1919; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: OH Swezey; individualCount: 11; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: S. Kona; Identification: identifiedBy: EH Bryan; Event: eventDate: 8-20.viii.1919; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: WC Gagne, W. Mull; individualCount: 6; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Olaa Forest; verbatimElevation: 3200 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: K Arakaki; Event: eventDate: 22.vi.1985; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: KN Magnacca; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Maui; verbatimLocality: Puu Kukui, Kahanaiki Gulch, sweeping veg and ground; verbatimElevation: 2100 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: PM O'Grady; Event: verbatimEventDate: 7.viii.2007; Record Level: institutionID: EMEC7356001; institutionCode: EMEC; collectionCode: 07-0813 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: no collector given; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kau; verbatimElevation: 4000 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: EH Bryan; Event: eventDate: no date given; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM

Ecological interactions

Native status

endemic

Distribution

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: Maui, Hawaii

Notes

Grimshaw (1901) [original description]; Hardy and Delfinado (1980) [redescription; illustration of whole fly (lateral), wing, antenna (lateral), male genitalia (left 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].