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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1944

First collected

1987

Last collected

2025

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Balclutha, most mentions first.

  1. 2014

    Biological survey on a 10-acre parcel and adjacent areas, proposed land acquisition, Kahuluui, Maui, Hawaii

    Preston, D. & Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  2. 2008

    Inventory of seabirds, plants, and arthropods on twenty offshore islets in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Eijzenga, H. & Preston, D.J. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2007

  4. 2002

    A review of the insects and related arthropods of Midway Atoll

    Nishida, G.M.& J.W. Beardsley · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2000

    Biodiversity of freshwater and estuarine communities in lower Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced species

    Englund, R.A., D.J. Preston, R. Wolff, S.L. Coles, L.G. Eldredge & K. Arakaki · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Two centuries of collecting

1940s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1944 by Herms, Russell (Ewa West Loch). The Museum last collected it in 1987; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as March 31, 2025.

Alive today

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