A living guide to Kauaʻi
Kauaʻi species, habitats and conservation records
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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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.
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Aedes albopictus
Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus) belongs to Culicidae in the order Diptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced — invasive.
Yellow Fever Mosquito
Aedes aegypti
Aedes aegypti is retained here as a historical Kauaʻi record, not a confirmed current island population.
Cheumatopsyche analis
Cheumatopsyche analis
Cheumatopsyche analis is an introduced net-spinning caddisfly with aquatic larvae and winged adults.
Hydroptila potosina
Hydroptila potosina
Hydroptila potosina is an introduced microcaddisfly formerly reported in Hawaiʻi as H. arctia.
Mesovelia amoena
Mesovelia amoena
Mesovelia amoena is associated with seeps and small spring-fed flows rather than open ponds.
Buenoa pallipes
Buenoa pallipes
Buenoa pallipes is an introduced backswimmer documented in Hawaiian freshwater inventories.
Brachydeutera ibari
Brachydeutera ibari
Brachydeutera ibari is the name used in the historical Hawaiian aquatic inventories.
Procanace hardyi
Procanace hardyi
Procanace hardyi was described in 2016 from Kauaʻi material.
Procanace quadrisetosa
Procanace quadrisetosa
Procanace quadrisetosa is a Kauaʻi member of the dark nigroviridis species complex.
Procanace wirthi
Procanace wirthi
Procanace wirthi is recorded from Kauaʻi and Oʻahu.
Canaceoides angulatus
Canaceoides angulatus
Canaceoides angulatus can be separated from C. hawaiiensis by the arrangement of hairs on the femur: they cover the posterior surface irregularly rather than forming two ordered rows.
Notiphila insularis
Notiphila insularis
Notiphila insularis is a Hawaiian endemic shore fly with records from several islands, rather than a Kauaʻi-only endemic.
Hyposmocoma eepawai
Hyposmocoma eepawai
Hyposmocoma eepawai has amphibious caterpillars that carry small, bugle-shaped cases made from silk and sand.
Hyposmocoma uhauiole
Hyposmocoma uhauiole
Hyposmocoma uhauiole is an amphibious case-making moth of eastern Kauaʻi streams, including Uhauʻiole, Wailua, and Keāhua.
Hyposmocoma wailua
Hyposmocoma wailua
Hyposmocoma wailua was described from amphibious caterpillars in the upper Wailua River.
Hyposmocoma marginenotata
Hyposmocoma marginenotata
Hyposmocoma marginenotata was described from a series of Kauaʻi moths collected at roughly 3,000–4,000 feet, including Kaholuamano.
Udea stellata
Udea stellata
Udea stellata caterpillars feed on māmaki relatives in the genus Pipturus.
Odontomyia ochropa
Odontomyia ochropa
Odontomyia ochropa is a soldier fly whose aquatic larvae were confirmed by rearing adults from a duck pond near Singapore.
Neotermes connexus
Neotermes connexus
Neotermes connexus is a member of Kalotermitidae in the order Blattodea. Its recorded origin status on Kauaʻi is native/indigenous hawaiian. Neotermes connexus is a native Hawaiian drywood/dampwood-type forest termite recorded from Kauaʻi.
Itodacne sordidus
Itodacne sordidus
Itodacne sordidus is a member of Elateridae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status on Kauaʻi is endemic — kauaʻi. Itodacne sordidus is a Kauaʻi-endemic click beetle. Adult and wireworm-like larval stages are distinct and shoul
