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Alphonsea lutea

IUCN: least concern

Photo: (c) Siddarth Machado, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Siddarth Machado (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1969

First collected

1986

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive

Where Bishop collected it

1 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1960s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1969 by Mueller-Dombois, D.; Wirawan, N.; Cooray, R.; Balakrishnan, N. (Wilpattu NP, between Kanjuran and Kumutu Villu). The Museum last collected it in 1986; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as August 5, 2026.

From the collection

Alphonsea lutea, 506496Alphonsea lutea, 562650Alphonsea lutea, 562646Alphonsea lutea, 562645

Alive today

9 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild since 2000. Most recent first.