Checklist of the Elateridae of Hawaii

[updated 6 February 2006]

Additional information on these species is available from the

Hawaii Biological Survey

All photos by P. Johnson


Aeolus livens (Say)
Synonyms: Aeolus dorsalis (Say)
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu; western North America

Anchastus swezeyi Van Zwaluwenburg
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu, Mauai, Hawaii

Brachylacon beardsleyi Ohira and Becker
Status: probably adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Chalcolepidius erythroloma Candeze
Synonyms: Chalcolepidius albertisi Candeze
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu, Kauai, Hawaii; Peru; Ecuador; Colombia

Conoderus amplicollis (Gyllenhal)
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu; California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico; Mexico; Honduras; Dominica; Martinique; Cuba; St. Vincent; Guadeloupe; Bermuda.

Conoderus eveillardi (Le Guillou)
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu; Australia: Queensland

Conoderus exsul (Sharp)
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Hawaii, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, Midway; California; Arizona; New Zealand: Kermadec I.

Conoderus pallipes (Eschscholtz)
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu, Midway, Kure; New Zealand; Micronesia; Polynesia; eastern Melanesia.

Dacnitus currax Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Eopenthes ambiguus Blackburn
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes antennatus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes arduus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes auratus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Molokai

Eopenthes basalis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes caeruleus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Lanai, Molokai

Eopenthes celatus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Molokai

Eopenthes cognatus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Hawaii

Eopenthes debilis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes deceptor Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Molokai

Eopenthes divisus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes funebris Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Eopenthes germanus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes gracilis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Molokai

Eopenthes humeralis (Karsch)
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Mauai

Eopenthes kauaiensis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Eopenthes konae Blackburn
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Hawaii

Eopenthes longicollis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Eopenthes marginatus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes mauiensis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Mauai

Eopenthes muticus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Eopenthes oahuensis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes obscurus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes pallipes Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes parvulus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes perkinsi Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Eopenthes plebeius Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Lanai

Eopenthes politus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Mauai

Eopenthes satelles Blackburn
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Lanai

Eopenthes tarsalis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Eopenthes tinctus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Hawaii

Eopenthes unicolor Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Eopenthes varians Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Molokai

Heteroderes flavicans (Candeze)
Synonyms: Conoderus cairnsensis (Blackburn)
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu; Australia: Queensland

Itodacnus blackburnianus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Hawaii

Itodacnus chloroticus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu

Itodacnus collaris Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Molokai

Itodacnus coruscus (Karsch)
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Mauai

Itodacnus gracilis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Hawaii, Oahu

Itodacnus kauaiensis Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Itodacnus major Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Itodacnus nihoae Samuelson & Johnson
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Nihoa

Itodacnus novicornis Van Zwaluwenburg
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Necker

Itodacnus paradoxus Samuelson & Van Zwaluwenburg
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Necker

Itodacnus sordidus Sharp
Status: endemic
Distribution: Hawaii: Kauai

Lacon modestus (Boisduval)
Synonyms: Adelocera pruinosus Fairmaire, A. squalida Fairmaire, A. nigroplagiatus Blanchard, A. guadulpensis Fleutiaux & Salle, A. vicinus Candeze, A. tessellata Candeze; var. coomani Fleutiaux; Elater castanidens Gyllenhal
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii, Oahu; Samoa: Upolu; Australia; Borneo; Laos; Vietnam; Fiji, Viti Levu; New Caledonia; Polynesia; Marianas Is., Guam: Gilbert Is.; Senegal; French Guiana; Guatemala; Antilles; Australia; Indonesia: Ambon, Java, Bali, Sumatra

Melanoxanthus melanocephalus (Fabricius)
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu; India; Arabia; Marianas Is.: Guam; Samoa: Upolu; Zanzibar; Madagascar; Mascareigne Is.; Seychelle Is.; Comoro Is.; Society Is.: Tahiti; Line Is.: Palmyra; Baker; Okinawa; Taiwan; Australia; Papua New Guinea: Duke of York I.

Dicronychus dohrni Candeze [tentative determination by H. Douglas, February 2006]
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu; eastern Asia

Dicronychus stolatus (Erichson) [possible same species as D. dohrni, above]
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu; western Pacific islands

Prodrasterius collaris (Candeze)
Synonyms: Drasterius nigricollis Fleutiaux, Drasterius brahminus Fleutiaux
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu, Kauai; Vietnam; Laos; India; Burma

Rismethus sp. [undetermined]
Status: adventive
Distribution: Hawaii: Oahu; ? Southeastern Asia

Simodactylus cinnamomeus (Boisduval)
Synonyms: Monocrepidius chazali LeGuillou, M. sericans Fairmaire, M. subcastaneus Fairmaire
Status: indigenous
Distribution: Hawaii Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Oahu; Samoa; Solomon Is.; Guadalcanal; Austral Is.; Papua New Guinea: New Britain; Marshall Is.; Fiji; Marquesa Is.


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