Omiodes euryprora (Ola‘a Banana Leafroller Moth)

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Ola'a Pyralid Moth
(Omiodes euryprora)

family: Pyralidae

known from Hawai'i itself / Hawai'i Islands, commonly considered extinct

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Olaa Pyralid Moth
(Omiodes euryprora)

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source:

'Fauna Hawaiiensis; being the land-fauna of the Hawaiian islands. by various authors, 1899-1913. Cambridge [Eng.]: The University press, 1913.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Population size and trend are unknown for Omiodes euryprora. It was noted as rare by Swezey (1907) more than a hundred years ago. It is evidently still quite rare, if it is extant, because it has not been collected recently, despite sampling efforts at historical collection sites and in appropriate habitat. As early as 1982, it was reported possibly extinct by the Hawaiian Biological Survey, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the IUCN (Evenhuis 2002, Beattie 1994, IUCN 2003) due to its disappearance from museum collections (Haines et al. 2004). Since then, the extinction status has been reconsidered because 9 out of 14 Omiodes species thought to be extinct were rediscovered (Haines et al. 2004, Haines 2011). This species has not been rediscovered, but the presumption of extinction may still be premature, considering there are many remote valleys on Hawai‘i Island that remain unexplored by lepidopterists. We infer a small population size (0-49 mature individuals), if this species is in fact extant, because only such a limited population size would allow this species to evade detection for so long.

www.iucnredlist.org/species/44545/164008365#population

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explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.117503/Omiodes_euryprora

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Patterns of extinction across Hawaiian Lepidoptera offer lessons from a diverse, neglected, and vulnerable endemic fauna.

Last recorded 1919.

www.researchgate.net/publication/384487192_Patterns_of_extinction_across_Hawaiian_Lepidoptera_offer_lessons_from_a_diverse_neglected_and_vulnerable_endemic_fauna