Omiodes meyricki (Meyrick's Hedyleptan Moth)

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Meyrick's Pyralid Moth
(Omiodes meyricki)

family: Pyralidae

known from Hawai', O'ahu / Hawai'i Islands, but occured perhaps on other islands as well, commonly considered extinct

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Omiodes meyricki is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, where it has been recorded on the islands of Hawai‘i and O‘ahu (Zimmerman 1958, Haines 2011). Zimmerman (1958) reported that its distribution was confined to Hawai‘i, but it was later also discovered in O‘ahu (Haines 2011). The type specimen was collected near Akaka Falls in Hawai‘i (Zimmerman 1958).

Total population size for Omiodes meyricki is unknown, as is population trend. This species was considered possibly extinct by the Hawaiian Biological Survey (Evenhuis 2002, Gagné and Christensen 1985). It has still not been recorded recently, despite survey efforts (Haines 2011), though it may be premature to presume extinction because this species is difficult to identify. It has been suggested that this species is a variety of O. blackburni (W. Haines pers. comm. 2019), which is a relatively common species. This uncertainty may contribute to the lack of recent records.

www.iucnredlist.org/species/44548/164008467#population

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explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.109914/Omiodes_meyricki

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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