Basic information is available in the 2015 Hawaiʻi State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP):
- Acari (mites and ticks)
- Pseudoscorpionida
- Archaeognatha (bristlethighs)
- Collembola (springtails)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (true flies)
- Heteroptera (true bugs) [GM Note: this is a suborder of Hemiptera]
- Homoptera (aphids, plant/leaf hoppers, psyllids, mealybugs, etc.) [GM note: this is now a suborder of Hemiptera and has been split into several suborders]
- Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions)
- Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids)
- Phthiraptera (lice)
- Psocoptera (bark lice, psocids)
- Siphonaptera (fleas)
- Thysanoptera (thrips)
- Isopoda (pillbugs, sowbugs)
- Geophilomorpha, Lithobimorpha (centipedes)
- Polyxenida, Spirostreptida (millipedes)
Several species or groups of species of particular interest are described here.
One is the Koa bug, Coleotichus blackburniae. There is information on the species here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleotichus_blackburniae. The USFWS page is here: https://ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/DownloadFile/18913?Reference=20251. The species is in the true bug family Scutelleridae. The site describes factors that have reduced the species abundance.
Another species is the Wekiu bug (Nysius wekiuicola), an endemic seed bug that is found at high elevations on Mauna Kea and with some very interesting habits. The Wikipedia page with basic information is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nysius_wekiuicola. Details on the range, habitat, and ecology for the species are here: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pdf/wekiufinal-low.pdf. If this page is not available go here: https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/species/938.
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