Blackburnia anomala (Blackburn, 1878)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Disenochus anomalus Blackburn, 1878:121 (basionym)
Transferred to the genus Blackburnia by (Liebherr & Zimmerman, 2000:215)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered (Polhemus et al., 2003)
Distribution
Maui, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Blackburn, T. (1878). Characters of new genera and descriptions of new species of Geodephaga from the Hawaiian Islands. Entomol. Mon. Mag. 15: 119-123.
Other references:
Liebherr, James K. and Zimmerman, Elwood C. (2000). Insects of Hawaii, vol. 16. Hawaiian Carabidae (Coleoptera), part 1: Introduction and tribe Platynini. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: University of Hawaii Press. [p. 65: species key; p. 212: museum specimen; p. 215: taxon profile]
Polhemus, Dan A., Ewing, Curtis P., Kahaloa'a, R. and Liebherr, James, K. (2003). Rediscovery of Blackburnia anomala (Coleoptera: Carabidae), in East Maui, Hawai'i, after a 107-year hiatus. Pacific Science 57(2): 161-166.
Sharp, D. (1903). Coleoptera, Caraboidea, pp. 175-292. In: Fauna Hawaiiensis. Vol. 3. D. Sharp (ed.). University Press, Cambridge.
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