Asteia apicalis 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 apicalis Grimshaw, 1901

Asteia apicalis Grimshaw, 1901: 73

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: no collector given; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kilauea; Event: verbatimEventDate: vii.1895; Record Level: institutionCode: BMNH Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: no collector given; individualCount: 3; sex: male; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kilauea; Event: verbatimEventDate: vii.1895; Record Level: institutionCode: BMNH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: OH Swezey; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kilauea; Identification: identifiedBy: DE Hardy; Event: eventDate: 27.vi.1917; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: OH Swezey; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Upper Hamakua Ditch Trail; Identification: identifiedBy: DE Hardy; Event: eventDate: 3.ix.1919; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: OH Swezey; individualCount: 5; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Upper Hamakua Ditch Trail; Identification: identifiedBy: DE Hardy; Event: eventDate: 1-7.x.1929; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: WW Wirth, CJ Davis; sex: female; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kilauea, Hawaii National Park; Event: verbatimEventDate: viii.1946; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: WW Wirth, CJ Davis; sex: female; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kilauea, Hawaii National Park; Event: verbatimEventDate: ix.1946; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: JW Beardsley; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kilauea, light trap; Event: eventDate: viii.1958; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: FG Howarth; individualCount: 28; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kilauea For. Res. IBP Study Site; verbatimElevation: 1586 m; Identification: identifiedBy: DE Hardy; Event: eventDate: 2.vii.1971; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: KN Magnacca; individualCount: 2; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Maui; verbatimLocality: Kaupo Trail, Haleakala National Park, on and under Acacia koa; verbatimElevation: 5500 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: PM O'Grady; Event: verbatimEventDate: 2.viii.2007; Record Level: institutionID: EMEC7356000; institutionCode: EMEC; collectionCode: 07-0735 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: no collector given; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kau; verbatimElevation: 4000 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: DE Hardy; Event: eventDate: no date given; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM

Ecological interactions

Native status

endemic

Distribution

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: Maui, Hawaii

Notes

Grimshaw (1901) [original description]; Sabrosky (1947) [redescription]; Hardy and Delfinado (1980) [redescription; illustration of male genitalia (terminal), male genitalia (right lateral), 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].