Kauaʻi record · KCA-IA-00743
Bembidion blackburni
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About Bembidion blackburni
Bembidion blackburni is a member of Carabidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status on Kauaʻi is endemic hawaiian.
Bembidion blackburni is a Hawaiian-endemic ground beetle documented from Kauaʻi. Liebherr's 2008 revision moved the species from Gnatholymnaeum into Bembidion and mapped Kauaʻi records for the Hawaiian taxon.
Kauaʻi occurrence evidence: Liebherr 2008 formally transfers Gnatholymnaeum blackburni Sharp, 1903 to Bembidion and maps B. blackburni distributional records on Kauaʻi. The replacement name B. ateradustum applies to the distinct Csiki 1928 junior homonym, not the Hawaiian Sharp taxon.
The cited occurrence evidence does not by itself establish current abundance or population trend on Kauaʻi.
Life cycle
Egg; larva; pupa; adult.
Food and ecological role
Predatory ground beetle; species-specific prey relationships remain to be sourced.
Reproduction
Carabid egg and larval development; species-specific oviposition and immature-stage ecology remain to be sourced.
Movement
Adult flight-wing state and dispersal capacity require species-specific extraction from the revision.
Ecosystem role
Native Hawaiian predatory ground beetle in moist terrestrial/riparian arthropod communities.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Bembidion blackburni
- Other names
- Gnatholymnaeum blackburni
- Family
- Carabidae
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Historic + taxonomically documented; current occurrence to verify
- Origin
- Endemic Hawaiian
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Bembidion blackburni is a member of Carabidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status on Kauaʻi is endemic hawaiian.