Checklist of the Elateridae of Hawaii
[updated 6 February 2006]
Additional information on these species is available from the
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.