Asteia sabroskyi 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 sabroskyi Hardy & Delfinado, 1980

Asteia sabroskyi Hardy & Delfinado, 1980: 244

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Mt. Tantalus; Event: verbatimEventDate: 1.i.1970; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: OH Swezey; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Waiawa; Event: verbatimEventDate: 8.vi.1921; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM, BMNH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: NLH Krauss; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Waimea; Event: verbatimEventDate: 26.iv.1944; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: no collector given; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Manoa; Event: verbatimEventDate: 12.iii.1945; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM, BMNH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Molokai; verbatimLocality: Maunawainui Valley; Event: verbatimEventDate: vii.1952; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Kauai; verbatimLocality: Kokee; verbatimElevation: 3600 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: vii.1953; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Kauai; verbatimLocality: Halemanu Valley; Event: verbatimEventDate: viii.1953; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Kauai; verbatimLocality: Kawaikoi Stream; verbatimElevation: 3700 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: viii.1953; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: JW Beardsley; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Mt. Tantalus; Event: verbatimEventDate: 5.v.1956; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Pauahi; verbatimElevation: 4300 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: viii.1956; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: WC Mitchell; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Mauna Loa Truck Trail; verbatimElevation: 4250 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: xi.1956; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: CR Joyce; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Honolulu; Event: verbatimEventDate: 13.i.1958; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM, BMNH Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: CR Joyce; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Honolulu; Event: verbatimEventDate: 8.viii.1958; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM, BMNH Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: CR Joyce; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Nuuanu; Event: verbatimEventDate: 26.i.1959; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM, BMNH Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: CR Joyce; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Nuuanu; Event: verbatimEventDate: 6.iv.1959; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM, BMNH Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: JW Beardsley; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Puu Kanehoa; Event: verbatimEventDate: 25.vii-10.viii.1959; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM, BMNH Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: JW Beardsley; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Kauai; verbatimLocality: Kokee, light trap; Event: eventDate: 29.viii.1959; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: TC Maa; individualCount: 2; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Puu Palikea, Metrosideros; verbatimElevation: 2500 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: K Arakaki; Event: eventDate: 15.x.1960; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: CR Joyce; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Nuuanu; Event: verbatimEventDate: 10.vii.1961; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: LH Throckmorton; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Mt. Kaala; Event: verbatimEventDate: 30.vi.1963; Record Level: institutionCode: USNM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: JL Gressit; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Waimano Trail; verbatimElevation: 400-500m; Event: verbatimEventDate: 5.vii.1963; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy, HT Spieth, LH Throckmorton; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Kauai; verbatimLocality: Mohihi Stream, Kokee; Event: verbatimEventDate: 27.vii.1963; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: LH Throckmorton; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Bird Park, Kilauea; Event: verbatimEventDate: 24.vi.1964; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Hualalei; verbatimElevation: 2000 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: 18.viii.1964; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy, HT Spieth, LH Throckmorton; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Kauai; verbatimLocality: Mohihi Stream, Kokee; Event: verbatimEventDate: 28.viii.1964; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: HT Spieth; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Kipuka Ki; Event: verbatimEventDate: 8.ix.1964; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: JW Beardsley; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Maui; verbatimLocality: Ulukalapua; Event: verbatimEventDate: 26.v.1965; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: CM Yoshimoto; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Kauai; verbatimLocality: Alakai, Kokee; verbatimElevation: 4000 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: 14.ix.1965; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: East Makaleha; Event: verbatimEventDate: 7.xii.1969; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Mt. Tantalus; Event: verbatimEventDate: 1.i.1970; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Palikea Gulch; Event: verbatimEventDate: 20.ii.1970; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Waianae Kai Forest Reserve; verbatimElevation: 1800 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: 31.v.1970; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Puu Pane; Event: verbatimEventDate: 18.vi.1970; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Opaeula; Event: verbatimEventDate: 20.vi-16.vii.1970; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Puu Kaua; Event: verbatimEventDate: 4-27.viii.1970; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: East Makaleha; Event: verbatimEventDate: 7.xi.1970; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Mokuleia; Event: verbatimEventDate: 23.xi.1970; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Puu Kanehoa; Event: verbatimEventDate: 21.ii.1971; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: DE Hardy; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Hualalai, N slope kipuka; verbatimElevation: 5000 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: K Arakaki; Event: eventDate: 7.x.1968; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Maui; verbatimLocality: Kaupo Gap; verbatimElevation: 4800 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: 21.iv.1971; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: SL Montgomery; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Niu; verbatimElevation: 1600 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: 11.vii.1971; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: WM Giffard; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: North Kona, Puuwaawaa; verbatimElevation: 3700 ft; Event: verbatimEventDate: no date given; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: WC Gagne; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Kipahulu Valley, nr. Puu Ahuula; verbatimElevation: 300 m; Event: eventDate: 23.vii.1980; Record Level: collectionID: 1980.322; institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: WC Gagne; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Kuliouou For. Res., Euphorbia celastroides; verbatimElevation: 609 m; Event: eventDate: 16.xi.1980; Record Level: collectionID: 1980.545; institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: GM Nishida; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Lualualei, Halona Valley, at MV light; verbatimElevation: 1420 ft; Event: eventDate: 19-20.i.1996; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: KN Magnacca; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Oahu; verbatimLocality: Manoa Cliff Trail, in Freycinetia axil; verbatimElevation: 1800 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: PM O'Grady; Event: verbatimEventDate: 25.ii.2007; Record Level: institutionID: EMEC7356012; institutionCode: ECEM; collectionCode: 07-0176 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: KN Magnacca; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Maui; verbatimLocality: Puu Kukui, Kahanaiki Gulch, sweeping Cyrtandra; verbatimElevation: 2100 ft; Identification: identifiedBy: PM O'Grady; Event: verbatimEventDate: 7.viii.2007; Record Level: institutionID: EMEC7356013; institutionCode: ECEM; collectionCode: 07-0819 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: PM O'Grady, RT Lapoint, GM Bennett, NA Pantoja; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kipuka Puaulu; Identification: identifiedBy: PM O'Grady; Event: verbatimEventDate: 1.viii.2010; Record Level: institutionID: EMEC7356014; institutionCode: ECEM; collectionCode: 610.4

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

This species has been reared from rotting stems and bark of several native Hawaiian plant species, including Pisonia , Charpentiera , Urera and Hibiscadelphus .

Native status

endemic

Distribution

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Hawaii

Notes

Hardy and Delfinado (1980) [original description; illustration of male genitalia (lateral, Oahu), male genitalia (lateral, Hawaii), egg]; 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].