A living guide to Kauaʻi
Insects, Spiders & Relatives of Kauaʻi
Explore the island’s native and introduced species, habitats, watersheds and conservation work. Each record connects its description, images and sources with the interactive Atlas.
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Drosophila sejuncta
Drosophila sejuncta
Drosophila sejuncta is a Kauaʻi picture-wing fly represented by a Kōkeʻe type specimen.
Drosophila scitula
Drosophila scitula
Drosophila scitula is a Kauaʻi endemic in the scitula subgroup.
Drosophila melanosoma
Drosophila melanosoma
Drosophila melanosoma is a Kauaʻi endemic represented by numerous upland specimens in the taxonomic revision.
Drosophila grimshawi
Drosophila grimshawi
The name Drosophila grimshawi requires special care in this Kauaʻi record.
Scaptomyza anomala
Scaptomyza anomala
Scaptomyza anomala is documented from Kauaʻi wet forest and much drier, lower-elevation settings.
Scaptomyza anechocerca
Scaptomyza anechocerca
Scaptomyza anechocerca was described from Kalalau Lookout material collected at about 1,220 m.
Scaptomyza magnipalpa
Scaptomyza magnipalpa
Scaptomyza magnipalpa was originally described in Drosophila and transferred to Scaptomyza in the 2008 taxonomic revision.
Scaptomyza waialealeae
Scaptomyza waialealeae
Scaptomyza waialealeae is anchored by type material collected on the Waiʻaleʻale Trail at about 1,370 m in 1953.
Drosophila anomalipes
Drosophila anomalipes
Drosophila anomalipes is closely related to D. quasianomalipes, another Kauaʻi species.
Drosophila glabriapex
Drosophila glabriapex
Drosophila glabriapex has type material from Mōhihi Stream in the Kōkeʻe region and is a named member of the Hawaiian picture-wing radiation.
Drosophila crucigera
Drosophila crucigera
Drosophila crucigera is a picture-wing fly recorded breeding in rotting bark of both native and introduced plants on Kauaʻi.
Drosophila eurypeza
Drosophila eurypeza
Drosophila eurypeza was described from Kōkeʻe material collected at about 1,098 m.
Cryphalus negrosensis
Cryphalus negrosensis
Cryphalus negrosensis belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Cryphalus sylvicola
Cryphalus sylvicola
Cryphalus sylvicola belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Coccotrypes advena
Coccotrypes advena
Coccotrypes advena belongs to Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Bembidion admirandum
Bembidion admirandum
Bembidion admirandum has unusually broad, smooth lateral margins on the pronotum, the shield immediately behind the head.
Bembidion corticarium
Bembidion corticarium
Bembidion corticarium was collected with other small ground beetles in Namolokama litter at 1,340 m in May 2005.
Bembidion teres
Bembidion teres
Bembidion teres measures about 4.3–5.0 mm in the revision and has fully developed flight wings.
Bembidion waialeale
Bembidion waialeale
Bembidion waialeale has reduced flight wings.
Bembidion ignicola
Bembidion ignicola
Bembidion ignicola occurs in riparian collections: five adults accompanied another beetle species in a rocky streambed sample dated May 1991.
Bembidion pacificum
Bembidion pacificum
Bembidion pacificum has fully developed flight wings and published ground-level records among dead leaves and in a wet gulch.
Bembidion niloticum
Bembidion niloticum
Bembidion niloticum is an introduced beetle of lowland stream margins.
Blackburnia aterrima
Blackburnia aterrima
Blackburnia aterrima is recorded among the predatory beetles associated with ʻōhiʻa lehua.
Blackburnia bryophila
Blackburnia bryophila
Blackburnia bryophila occurred in a sifted Namolokama sample at 1,305 m on 23 May 2005.
Blackburnia pavida
Blackburnia pavida
Blackburnia pavida appears in the published inventory of predatory arthropods associated with ʻōhiʻa lehua.
Blackburnia posticata
Blackburnia posticata
Blackburnia posticata was recovered from Namolokama litter at 1,305 m in May 2005.
Blackburnia burneyi
Blackburnia burneyi
Blackburnia burneyi is an extinct species described in 2015 from Makauwahi subfossils, including right wing-cover material.
Blackburnia cryptipes
Blackburnia cryptipes
Blackburnia cryptipes is an extinct species described in 2015 from Makauwahi subfossils, including a head, mandibles, pronotum, and wing cover.
Blackburnia godzilla
Blackburnia godzilla
Blackburnia godzilla is an extinct species described in 2015 from Makauwahi subfossils, including head, thoracic, and wing-cover fragments.
Blackburnia menehune
Blackburnia menehune
Blackburnia menehune is an extinct species described in 2015 from Makauwahi subfossils, including paired wing covers from one sample.
Blackburnia mothra
Blackburnia mothra
Blackburnia mothra is an extinct species described in 2015 from Makauwahi subfossils, including head, pronotum, and wing-cover remains.
Blackburnia ovata
Blackburnia ovata
Blackburnia ovata is an extinct species described in 2015 from Makauwahi subfossils, including pronotum and wing-cover material.
Blackburnia rugosa
Blackburnia rugosa
Blackburnia rugosa is an extinct species described in 2015 from Makauwahi subfossils, including a pronotum with associated thoracic structures.
Tachys oahuensis
Tachys oahuensis
Tachys oahuensis is a small Hawaiian ground beetle with flight-capable individuals.
Banza affinis
Banza affinis
Banza affinis was described as Brachymetopa affinis in 1899 and later transferred to Banza.
Banza kauaiensis
Banza kauaiensis
Banza kauaiensis is an endemic Hawaiian katydid whose evolutionary relationships have been tested with DNA data.
Hawaiiandra puncticeps
Hawaiiandra puncticeps
Hawaiiandra puncticeps appears in older Hawaiian forest literature as Parandra puncticeps.
Aegolipton reflexa
Aegolipton reflexa
Aegolipton reflexa was treated historically as Megopis (Aegosoma) reflexa.
Plagithmysus aequalis
Plagithmysus aequalis
Plagithmysus aequalis belongs to Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Plagithmysus concolor concolor
Plagithmysus concolor concolor
Plagithmysus concolor concolor is the nominotypical subspecies of a Kauaʻi longhorn beetle complex.
Plagithmysus concolor arachnipes
Plagithmysus concolor arachnipes
Plagithmysus concolor arachnipes belongs to Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Plagithmysus concolor munroi
Plagithmysus concolor munroi
Plagithmysus concolor munroi belongs to the variable Kauaʻi concolor complex.
Plagithmysus diana
Plagithmysus diana
Plagithmysus diana belongs to Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Plagithmysus akoko
Plagithmysus akoko
Plagithmysus akoko was reared from native Euphorbia collected along the Awaʻawapuhi Trail on Kauaʻi at about 790 m.
Plagithmysus hoikuahiwi
Plagithmysus hoikuahiwi
The type series of Plagithmysus hoikuahiwi was reared from Smilax collected on Pihea Trail at 1,200 m.
Plagithmysus metrosideri
Plagithmysus metrosideri
Plagithmysus metrosideri is associated with Metrosideros in the Hawaiian longhorn-beetle synthesis.
Plagithmysus obscurus
Plagithmysus obscurus
Plagithmysus obscurus is a koa-associated Kauaʻi longhorn beetle.
Plagithmysus perrottetiae
Plagithmysus perrottetiae
Plagithmysus perrottetiae is linked with Perrottetia in the published Kauaʻi host index.
Plagithmysus sharpianus
Plagithmysus sharpianus
Plagithmysus sharpianus belongs to Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Plagithmysus sugawai
Plagithmysus sugawai
Plagithmysus sugawai belongs to a group associated with Pittosporum.
Xystrocera globosa
Xystrocera globosa
Xystrocera globosa belongs to Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Phoracantha semipunctata
Phoracantha semipunctata
Phoracantha semipunctata belongs to Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Ceresium unicolor
Ceresium unicolor
Ceresium unicolor belongs to Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Gelonaetha hirta
Gelonaetha hirta
Gelonaetha hirta belongs to Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced / adventive.
Apomecyna saltator
Apomecyna saltator
Apomecyna saltator is the introduced cucurbit longicorn.
Pterolophia bigibbera
Pterolophia bigibbera
Pterolophia bigibbera is a Southeast Asian longhorn beetle introduced to Kauaʻi and Oʻahu.
Dicranomyia sabroskyana
Dicranomyia sabroskyana
Dicranomyia sabroskyana belongs to Limoniidae in the order Diptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi.
Dicranomyia hawaiiensis
Dicranomyia hawaiiensis
Dicranomyia hawaiiensis belongs to Limoniidae in the order Diptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic hawaiian.
Dicranomyia variabilis
Dicranomyia variabilis
Dicranomyia variabilis belongs to Limoniidae in the order Diptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic hawaiian.
Dicranomyia kauaiensis
Dicranomyia kauaiensis
Dicranomyia kauaiensis belongs to the Hawaiian crane-fly radiation, but its name does not demonstrate restriction to Kauaʻi.
