Asteia molokaiensis Hardy & Delfinado, 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

Asteia molokaiensis Hardy & Delfinado, 1980

Asteia molokaiensis Hardy & Delfinado, 1980: 238

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: D Gubler; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Molokai; verbatimLocality: Puu Kolekole; verbatimElevation: 3600 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: 20.vii.1964; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy, M Tamashiro; individualCount: 4; sex: female; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Molokai; verbatimLocality: Puu Kolekole; verbatimElevation: 3600 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: vi.1952-viii.1964; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: BH Gagne; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Lanai; verbatimLocality: Lanaihale; verbatimElevation: 914 m; Identification: identifiedBy: K Arakaki; Event: eventDate: 20.v.1980; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: KN Magnacca; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Maui; verbatimLocality: Kaupo Trail, Haleakala National Park, sweeping veg and ground; verbatimElevation: 5500 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: PM O'Grady; Event: verbatimEventDate: 2.viii.2007; Record Level: institutionID: EMEC7356005; institutionCode: EMEC; collectionCode: 07-0755

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: KN Magnacca; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Maui; verbatimLocality: Makawao Forest Reserve, on and under Clermontia; verbatimElevation: 4500 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: PM O'Grady; Event: verbatimEventDate: 6.viii.2007; Record Level: institutionID: EMEC7356006; institutionCode: EMEC; collectionCode: 07-0808

Ecological interactions

Native status

endemic

Distribution

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: Molokai, Maui

Notes

Hardy and Delfinado (1980) [original description; illustration of female abdomen (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].