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Polinices melanostoma

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Bishop specimens

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Type specimens

1906

First collected

1962

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1900s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1906 by Lorrin Andrews Thurston (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Polinices melanostoma, 200220Polinices melanostoma, 205189Polinices melanostoma, 205410Polinices melanostoma, 218174Polinices melanostoma, 218176Polinices melanostoma, 218175Polinices melanostoma, 68386Polinices melanostoma, 67675Polinices melanostoma, 202140Polinices melanostoma, 196770Polinices melanostoma, 197942Polinices melanostoma, 197969