Asteia aberrans 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 aberrans Hardy & Delfinado, 1980

Asteia aberrans Hardy & Delfinado, 1980: 233

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: JW Beardsley; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Northwest Hawaiian Islands; verbatimLocality: Nihoa; Event: verbatimEventDate: 23-24.ix.1964; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: JW Beardsley; individualCount: 2; sex: female; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Northwest Hawaiian Islands; verbatimLocality: Nihoa; Event: verbatimEventDate: 23-24.ix.1964; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Northwest Hawaiian Islands; verbatimLocality: Necker; Event: verbatimEventDate: 26-27.ix.1964; Record Level: institutionCode: UHEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: WC Gagne; individualCount: 4; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Northwest Hawaiian Islands; verbatimLocality: Nihoa, E Palm Valley, in moist shelter cave; verbatimElevation: 150m; Event: eventDate: 27.iv.1983; Record Level: collectionID: 1983.184; institutionCode: BPBM Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. Strazanac; individualCount: 1; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Northwest Hawaiian Islands; verbatimLocality: Nihoa, Miller V, yellow pan trap in low shrubs; verbatimElevation: 100 ft; Event: eventDate: 22.vi.1990; Record Level: institutionCode: BPBM

Ecological interactions

Native status

endemic

Distribution

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: Northwest Hawaiian Islands (Necker, Nihoa)

Notes

Hardy and Delfinado (1980) [original description; illustration of male genitalia (right lateral), head (lateral), wing]; 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].