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Blackburnia
Sign in to savethumb|Blackburnia hawaiiensis Blackburnia is a genus in the beetle family Carabidae, from the Hawaiian Islands. More than 40 of Blackburnia's 140 species have been described since 2000. 14 species have not been recently observed (over the past 50 years on Oahu or 100 years on the other islands). All the known extinct species have been discovered since 2015.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 3 inbound references to Blackburnia, and connects out to Carabidae, Animalia and insect.
Vinony files it under Fauna of Hawaii, Platyninae and Taxa named by David Sharp.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 364
- With media
- 20
- Family
- Carabidae
- Collections
- UHIM, NY, BPBM
- Recorded in
- United States, New Caledonia
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Taxonomy
- List of species
- References
thumb|Blackburnia hawaiiensis Blackburnia is a genus in the beetle family Carabidae, from the Hawaiian Islands. More than 40 of Blackburnia's 140 species have been described since 2000. 14 species have not been recently observed (over the past 50 years on Oahu or 100 years on the other islands). All the known extinct species have been discovered since 2015.
==Distribution== The Hawaiian Islands are a string of islands increasing in age from the "big island" of Hawaii in the southeast the youngest, at 500,000 years old, with successively older islands toward the northwest. Kure Atoll, in the far northwest of the Hawaiian chain, has an estimated age of 28 to 30 million years. The beetles of Blackburnia have been successively colonizing and proliferating these islands since the Miocene period, 5 to 23 million years ago, and there are now more than 130 extant species of Blackburnia endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blackburnia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.