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Hypena laysanensis Swezey, 1914

Laysan dropseed noctuid moth, Cranberry cutworm

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Nesamiptis laysanensis Swezey, 1914

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1911 (source) (1912?)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Laysan, Hawaiian Islands, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Swezey, Otto Herman. (1914). Two new species of moths from Laysan Island. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3(1): 20-22.

 

Other references:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A. & Lyal, C. (Eds.). (2003). The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 12 May 2012]

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

NatureServe. 2015. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://explorer.natureserve.org. (Accessed: January 3, 2016).

Nishida, G.M. (editor). 2002. Hawaiian terrestrial arthropod checklist, fourth edition. Hawaii Biological Survey Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Technical Report No. 22 Online. Available: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/hbsdb.html

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 1989. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; animal notice of review. Federal Register, Department of the Interior 54(4): 554-579.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996a). Hypena laysanensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 12 May 2012.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1996b. Hypena laysanensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T10637A3206838. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T10637A3206838.en. Accessed on 18 June 2022.

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