A living guide to Kauaʻi
Kauaʻi species, habitats and conservation records
Explore the island’s native and introduced species, habitats, watersheds and conservation work. Each record connects its description, images and sources with the interactive Atlas.
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Hylaeus andrenoides
Hylaeus andrenoides
Hylaeus andrenoides belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic.
Hylaeus chlorostictus
Hylaeus chlorostictus
Hylaeus chlorostictus belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic.
Hylaeus connectens
Hylaeus connectens
Hylaeus connectens belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic hawaiian; multi-island.
Hylaeus hirsutulus
Hylaeus hirsutulus
Hylaeus hirsutulus belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic.
Hylaeus hostilis
Hylaeus hostilis
Hylaeus hostilis belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic.
Hylaeus kokeensis
Hylaeus kokeensis
Hylaeus kokeensis belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic.
Hylaeus laetus
Hylaeus laetus
Hylaeus laetus belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic hawaiian; multi-island.
Hylaeus mutatus
Hylaeus mutatus
Hylaeus mutatus belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic.
Hylaeus perspicuus
Hylaeus perspicuus
Hylaeus perspicuus belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic.
Hylaeus solaris
Hylaeus solaris
Hylaeus solaris belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic.
Hylaeus specularis
Hylaeus specularis
Hylaeus specularis belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic hawaiian; multi-island.
Hylaeus albonitens
Hylaeus albonitens
Hylaeus albonitens belongs to Colletidae in the order Hymenoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced.
Hide Beetle
Omorgus suberosus
Hide Beetle (Omorgus suberosus) belongs to Trogidae in the order Coleoptera. Its recorded origin status is introduced.
Syntormon flexibile
Syntormon flexibile
Syntormon flexibile is a widely distributed long-legged fly.
Ochthera circularis
Ochthera circularis
Ochthera circularis has enlarged grasping forelegs used in its predatory life around stream margins.
Dolichopus exsul
Dolichopus exsul
Dolichopus exsul is cataloged as introduced in the Hawaiian Islands, with an Asian range that includes India, Nepal, Taiwan, and China.
Oxyethira maya
Oxyethira maya
Oxyethira maya is an introduced microcaddisfly whose aquatic larvae occupy transparent, flattened silk cases attached to rocks.
Scatella amnica
Scatella amnica
The 2014 revision added Kauaʻi to the documented range of Scatella amnica.
Scatella bryani
Scatella bryani
Scatella bryani is a Hawaiian endemic with records from all six main islands covered by the revision.
Scatella cilipes
Scatella cilipes
Scatella cilipes has Kauaʻi records from wet stream-edge rocks, including Wailua Falls, as well as later stream collections.
Scatella cinereifacies
Scatella cinereifacies
Scatella cinereifacies was described from specimens collected on wet rocks at ʻŌpaekaʻa Stream.
Scatella clavipes
Scatella clavipes
Scatella clavipes is a Hawaiian endemic recorded from Kauaʻi and several other islands.
Scatella hawaiiensis
Scatella hawaiiensis
Scatella hawaiiensis has a broad documented distribution within the Hawaiian archipelago.
Scatella kauaiensis
Scatella kauaiensis
Scatella kauaiensis is treated as restricted to Kauaʻi.
Scatella sexnotata
Scatella sexnotata
Scatella sexnotata is one of the widespread nonendemic shore flies in the Hawaiian review.
Scatella stagnalis
Scatella stagnalis
Scatella stagnalis is an adventive shore fly whose Kauaʻi occurrence was added in the 2014 revision.
Scatella warreni
Scatella warreni
Scatella warreni is a Hawaiian endemic recorded on Kauaʻi and several other islands.
Uropachys clavastyla
Uropachys clavastyla
Uropachys clavastyla belongs to Dolichopodidae in the order Diptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi only.
Uropachys crassicercus
Uropachys crassicercus
Uropachys crassicercus belongs to Dolichopodidae in the order Diptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi only.
Uropachys flavicrura
Uropachys flavicrura
Uropachys flavicrura belongs to Dolichopodidae in the order Diptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi only.
Uropachys hawaiensis
Uropachys hawaiensis
Uropachys hawaiensis belongs to Dolichopodidae in the order Diptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi only.
Uropachys palustricola
Uropachys palustricola
Uropachys palustricola belongs to Dolichopodidae in the order Diptera. Its recorded origin status is endemic — kauaʻi only.
Sigmatineurum napali
Sigmatineurum napali
Sigmatineurum napali is a Kauaʻi long-legged fly described from adults about 4 mm long.
Megalagrion eudytum
Megalagrion eudytum
Megalagrion eudytum is associated with seep and waterfall surfaces, where its immature stages occupy wet microhabitats.
Megalagrion heterogamias
Megalagrion heterogamias
Megalagrion heterogamias is associated with flowing water, including riffles and cascades.
Megalagrion vagabundum
Megalagrion vagabundum
Megalagrion vagabundum is a seep-associated damselfly whose larvae have sac-like gills.
Megalagrion oresitrophum
Megalagrion oresitrophum
Megalagrion oresitrophum is placed among standing-water breeders in the comparative study, with leaf-like larval gills.
Megalagrion paludicola
Megalagrion paludicola
Megalagrion paludicola is associated with standing-water breeding habitats, and the comparative study records lance-shaped larval gills.
Megalagrion mauka
Megalagrion mauka
Megalagrion mauka is represented by Kauaʻi specimens, including the Kalalau Trail, but its breeding habitat remains explicitly unknown in the recent comparative study.
Megalagrion kauaiense
Megalagrion kauaiense
Megalagrion kauaiense is associated with phytotelmata: small bodies of water held by plants.
Megalagrion adytum
Megalagrion adytum
Megalagrion adytum is classified as a seep breeder with lance-shaped larval gills.
Megalagrion orobates
Megalagrion orobates
Megalagrion orobates has leaf-like larval gills and is classified as a standing-water breeder.
Giant Hawaiian Dragonfly
Anax strenuus
Anax strenuus is the endemic Hawaiian giant darner, one of the archipelago’s largest native insects, with a wingspan reaching about 14 cm.
Fabulous Green Sphinx of Kauai
Tinostoma smaragditis
Tinostoma smaragditis is the distinctive green sphinx moth known only from Kauaʻi.
Omiodes monogramma
Omiodes monogramma
Omiodes monogramma is a native leafroller included in the Hawaiian parasitoid study that sampled Kauaʻi.
Omiodes accepta
Omiodes accepta
Omiodes accepta is the native Hawaiian sugarcane leafroller, an example of a native insect expanding onto an introduced crop.
Omiodes antidoxa
Omiodes antidoxa
Omiodes antidoxa was among the endemic leafrollers reared in the Hawaiian parasitoid study.
Dictyophorodelphax zwaluwenburgi vicar
Dictyophorodelphax zwaluwenburgi vicar
Dictyophorodelphax zwaluwenburgi vicar was described from the Hāʻupu range, where its type series occupied a steep, sunny, dry slope at about 250 m.
Acrophasmus immigrans
Acrophasmus immigrans
Acrophasmus immigrans is an accidentally introduced braconid wasp.
Apanteles trifasciatus
Apanteles trifasciatus
Apanteles trifasciatus develops as a parasitoid of small moth caterpillars.
Bracon mellitor
Bracon mellitor
Bracon mellitor is a parasitoid of caterpillars associated with stored products.
Bracon swezeyi
Bracon swezeyi
Bracon swezeyi attacks larvae of small moths.
Heterospilus baeticatus
Heterospilus baeticatus
Heterospilus baeticatus is a parasitoid of wood-boring beetle larvae.
Macrocentrus calacte
Macrocentrus calacte
Macrocentrus calacte is an introduced braconid represented by specimens from the Kalalau Trail and Kōkeʻe.
Psyttalia incisi
Psyttalia incisi
Psyttalia incisi was deliberately introduced as a parasitoid of tephritid fruit-fly larvae.
Spathius prusias
Spathius prusias
Spathius prusias is an introduced parasitoid associated with anthribid beetle larvae.
Helorus ruficornis
Helorus ruficornis
Helorus ruficornis is a parasitoid of green-lacewing larvae.
Barichneumon californicus
Barichneumon californicus
Barichneumon californicus is an accidentally introduced ichneumon wasp, with published Hawaiian records including Kauaʻi and Oʻahu.
Casinaria infesta
Casinaria infesta
Casinaria infesta is a parasitoid of pyralid moth caterpillars and an accidental introduction to Hawaiʻi.
Diadegma pattoni
Diadegma pattoni
Diadegma pattoni is an accidentally introduced ichneumon wasp recorded from Kauaʻi and several other main islands.
