The Alaka'i Swamp Food Web Project
The Alaka'i Swamp Food Web Project
Native species are black or blue (until links are vistited); aliens are green*
Those species without their own pages have brief notes at the bottom of this page.
1 The moths in this genus are tiny and feed as larvae on the sporangia of ferns. I collected two from Athyrium microphyllum in the swamp, but have no photos or other natural history information. [back to Batrachedrodes]
2 I collected this moth only in winter. The larvae are red/green and feed on the buds of Vaccinium, which are a similar color. The forewings of the adults are white with black patches. [back to Carposina sp. 2]
3 There are many enemic Eudonia that can be difficult to distinguish. The ones I collected in the swamp seem to be generalist detritivores but I have no photos, and successfully reared just two plus one more parasitized by Meteorus laphygmae. [back to Eudonia]
4 This species is a obligatory predator species, although a specialist on uluhe fern. It is dark brown and rests on the dead part of the fern to wait for prey. I did not successfully rear one to adulthood and it is as yet unidentified. [back to Eupithecia sp.]
5 The members of this genus (previously known as Opostega) are leaf miners in various species of Melicope (Pelea). Out of 6 described endemic species (more probably exist), three are known on Kaua`i. I found mines in M. clusiifolia and M. anisata (mokihana) in the swamp. Unfortunately, I was unable to rear any because the larvae did not survive once the leaf was plucked. The eulophid parasitoid Euderus metallicus has previously been reared from Melicope mines, and presumably Paralopostega. [back to Paralopostega]
A single immigrant fly was reared, Chaetogaedia monticola.* (Tachinidae)
Native species reared consisted of a few occurrences of the gregarious generalistEuderus metallicus (Eulophidae) and three different unidentified species in the large Hawaiian endemic genus Sierola (Bethylidae). There are no pages for these
species because I have no pictures (although I hope to get some through a scope someday) and very little is known of their biology.
*Native species are black or blue; aliens are
green*
Back to main pageWasp Species Reared:
Biological control agents:
Other alien wasps are thought to have been introduced accidentally (immigrants):
* (Ichneumonidae) (reared only once, from Omiodes antidoxa).
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Maintained by: Laurie Henneman
(M.L.Henneman@bris.ac.uk),
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol