Post by Sebbe on Dec 9, 2022 13:00:37 GMT
Omiodes maia historically occurred on the Hawaiian Islands of O‘ahu and Kaua‘i (Zimmerman 1958). There are no recent collection records for this species.
There are very few records of Omiodes maia in the literature. This species does not appear to have been common any time since entomologists started recording and collecting insects on the Hawaiian Islands at the end of the 1800s. In the early 1980s, Gagné and Christensen (1985) drew attention to the lack of recent collections of 14 out of 23 endemic Hawaiian Omiodes in museum archives. They proposed that 9 of these species, not including O. maia, were extinct or possibly extinct (Gagné and Christensen 1985). Since then, increased efforts to collect Omiodes led to the rediscovery of five out of nine of these species (Haines et al. 2004). Despite this increased collection effort, no recent records of O. maia have been found. We can 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. Targeted sampling in habitats containing banana host plants as well as historical collection sites should be carried out to determine whether this species is extant.
There are very few records of Omiodes maia in the literature. This species does not appear to have been common any time since entomologists started recording and collecting insects on the Hawaiian Islands at the end of the 1800s. In the early 1980s, Gagné and Christensen (1985) drew attention to the lack of recent collections of 14 out of 23 endemic Hawaiian Omiodes in museum archives. They proposed that 9 of these species, not including O. maia, were extinct or possibly extinct (Gagné and Christensen 1985). Since then, increased efforts to collect Omiodes led to the rediscovery of five out of nine of these species (Haines et al. 2004). Despite this increased collection effort, no recent records of O. maia have been found. We can 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. Targeted sampling in habitats containing banana host plants as well as historical collection sites should be carried out to determine whether this species is extant.
www.iucnredlist.org/species/164007236/164008613#population