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Copestylum tamaulipanum

Syrphid fly

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Karen Yukich, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Karen Yukich (iNaturalist)

3

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1941

First collected

1971

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Copestylum tamaulipanum, most mentions first.

  1. 2021

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of HalonaValley, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Kickham, Naval Magazine, Lualualei Annex, August–November 2020

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  2. 2020

    Terrestrial Arthropod Survey of Hālona Valley, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Naval Magazine Lualualei Annex, July 2019–September 201

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2019

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of Hālona Valley, Joint Pearl Harbor-Hickham, Naval Magazine Lualualei Annex, September 2018–December 2018

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2018

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of Halona Valey, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham, Naval Magaziune Lualualei Annex, August 2017–October 2017

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2017

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of Halona Valley, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Naval Magazine Lualualei Annex, November 2016–February 2017

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 2016

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of Halona Valley, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Naval Magazine Lualualei Annex, August–December 2015

    Evenhuis, N.L., Preston, D.J., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Two centuries of collecting

1940s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1941 by Cooke, C.M. (Waiakoa; T.H.). The Museum last collected it in 1971; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as October 19, 2026.

Alive today

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