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Oodemas laysanensis Fullaway, 1914

Laysan weevil

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Oedemasylus laysanensis Fullaway, 1914 (used in error by World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1996; Chris Lyal, pers. comm. March 2014)

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1964 (source); June 1990 (Neal Evenhuis, pers. comm. April 2014 to Alexander Lang)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

According to Neal Evenhuis (pers. comm. April 2014 to Alexander Lang), this species was last definitely collected on Nihoa in 1990, although more recent specimens may have been collected as not all specimens have been identified from collecting expeditions. Therefore this species is unlikely to be extinct, even though it is currently considered to be by (World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1996; Lyal, 2014).

This species was previously evaluated as extinct under the erroneous name "Oedemasylus laysanensis" (World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1996), and was set to be corrected in the next update of assessments (Chris Lyal, pers. comm. March 2014). The slated assessment appeared in due course, retaining the species as extinct (Lyal, 2014).

 

Distribution

Laysan, Midway, Nihoa and Necker Island, Hawaiian Islands, USA (Perkins, 1926)

 

Contra Perkins (1926), this species may not have occurred on Necker or Nihoa.

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Fullaway, David T. (1914a). A new species of Oodemas from Laysan Island. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(1): 18.

 

Other references:

Fullaway, D. T. (1914b). A list of Laysan Island insects. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(1): 18-19.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Lyal, C. (2014). Oodemas laysanensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 07 July 2014.

Lyal, C. 2014. Oodemas laysanensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T15144A21424379. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T15144A21424379.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

Perkins, R. C. L. (1926). Coleoptera, Weevils. Bulletin of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 31: 53-66.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (1994). Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Animal Candidate Review for Listing as Endangered or Threatened Species. Federal Register 59(219):58982-59028.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Oedemasylus laysanensis. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 30 March 2014.

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/18067/oodemas-laysanensis

https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.111442/Oodemas_laysanensis

 

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