Kauaʻi record · KCA-IA-00449
Bembidion pacificum
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About Bembidion pacificum
Bembidion pacificum has fully developed flight wings and published ground-level records among dead leaves and in a wet gulch.
Natural history and identification
Bembidion pacificum has fully developed flight wings and published ground-level records among dead leaves and in a wet gulch. The 2008 revision traced its Kauaʻi material to Perkins’s 1894 collections. This is a historical record, not evidence of a recent sighting.
Kauaʻi occurrence and evidence
Atlas occurrence category: Present. Makauwahi Cave study reports extant Bembidion pacificum from prehistoric Kauaʻi lowland deposits.
Evidence limits
The cited observations describe the evidence currently available for this account. They do not establish a complete life history or a measured current Kauaʻi population trend.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Bembidion pacificum
- Family
- Carabidae
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Present
- Origin
- Endemic Hawaiian
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Bembidion pacificum has fully developed flight wings and published ground-level records among dead leaves and in a wet gulch.