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Xylosandrus crassiusculus

Granulate Ambrosia Beetle

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Mike Quinn, San Marcos, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mike Quinn, San Marcos (iNaturalist)

4

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1955

First collected

1976

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Xylosandrus crassiusculus, most mentions first.

  1. 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 · 2 pages

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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Two centuries of collecting

1950s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1955 by Ford, E.J. (Wahiawa). The Museum last collected it in 1976; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as September 5, 2026.

Alive today

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