Studies in Hawaiian Diptera I: New Distributional Records for Endemic Asteia (Asteiidae)
Author
O'Grady, Patrick M
Author
Magnacca, Karl Nicholas
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2014
2
1010
1010
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1010
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1010
1314-2828--1010
Asteia montgomeryi Hardy, 1980
Asteia montgomeryi
Hardy, 1980: 239
Materials
Type status:
Holotype
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
WB Heed
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
male
; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Puuwaawaa; verbatimElevation:
2000 ft
; Event: verbatimEventDate:
16.ii.1973
; Record Level: institutionCode:
BPBM
Type status:
Paratype
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
WB Heed
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
male
; Location: islandGroup: Hawaiian Islands; island: Hawaii; verbatimLocality: Puuwaawaa; verbatimElevation:
2000 ft
; Event: verbatimEventDate:
16.ii.1973
; Record Level: institutionCode:
UHEC
Ecological interactions
Feeds on
This species has been reared from rotting stems of
Erythrina sandwichensis
Degener (Hawaiian Islands: Hawaii, Puuwaawaa, 2000 ft., WB Heed and SL Montgmery, iv-vi.1973)
Native status
endemic
Distribution
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: Hawaii
Notes
Hardy and Delfinado (1980)
[original description; illustration of male genitalia (terminal), 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].