Native And Alien Carabidae (Coleoptera) Share Lanai, An Ecologically Devastated Island
Author
Liebherr, James K.
Department of Entomology, John H. and Anna B. Comstock Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 - 2601, U. S. A.
JKL5@cornell.edu
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2009
2009-12-29
63
4
383
411
journal article
10.1649/1176.1
1938-4394
4924356
0949D971-E9E0-4FD3-B4EC-2C47B6124223
Bembidion ignicola
Blackburn
Distribution.
On Lanai, this species has been collected only once near Lanaihale (
Fig. 5D
). It is recorded from all of the other Hawaiian high islands (
Liebherr 2008
a
). The specimen is brachypterous, suggesting long-term persistence of a population of this species on the island (
Southwood 1977
).
Habitat.
The single Lanai specimen was collected during daytime by beating foliage of a small ohia tree situated in open forest with uluhe fern understory. The ohia had a thin covering of lichens and some moss clumps.
Cibotium
Kaulfuss
tree ferns and other ohia trees were beaten in the vicinity, producing specimens of
B. depressa
and
M. filipes
.
Tribe
Platynini
Diagnosis.
Diagnosable within the Hawaiian fauna by: 1) conjunct mesocoxal cavities; 2) glabrous mandibular scrobe; 3) mesally glabrous pronotal disc and third visible abdominal ventrite; and 4) lateral elytral margins bearing only lateral elytral setae situated in depressed foveae, without a pelage of fine microsetae covering the areas between the lateral setae (Liebherr and Zimmerman 2000). The five species of
Blackburnia
plus the non-native platynine species
M. buchanani
that are recorded from Lanai are taxonomically treated by Liebherr and Zimmerman (2000).