Buenoa pallipes

Natural history and identification

Buenoa pallipes is an introduced backswimmer documented in Hawaiian freshwater inventories. A voucher-based island-record paper also reports it from artificial ponds at Koele Lodge on Lānaʻi, collected separately from ponds containing another backswimmer, Anisops kurowae. That observation cautions against identifying every pond backswimmer as the same species. The pond record supplies a Hawaiian habitat example, while Kauaʻi occurrence rests on the separate watershed inventory.

Kauaʻi occurrence and evidence

Atlas occurrence category: Present. Kauaʻi watershed aquatic-resource compilation lists Buenoa pallipes among introduced insects; Hawaiian aquatic records recognize the species as an introduced backswimmer.

Evidence limits

The cited observations describe the evidence currently available for this account. They do not establish a complete life history or a measured current Kauaʻi population trend.

Names and classification

Scientific name

Buenoa pallipes

Family

Notonectidae

Order

Hemiptera

Record type

species

Kauaʻi occurrence and status

Kauaʻi occurrence

Present

Origin

Introduced

Conservation status

Not assessed

Process and seasonal context

Seasonal description

Buenoa pallipes is an introduced backswimmer documented in Hawaiian freshwater inventories.

Sources and further reading

• Kauaʻi Watershed Atlas + Hawaiian aquatic-insect records
• Natural history and identification — species source