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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaInsectaLepidopteraErebidaeSchrankia

Schrankia howarthi Davis & Medeiros, 2009

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Insecta
Order Lepidoptera
Family Erebidae
Genus Schrankia
Species Schrankia howarthi Davis & Medeiros, 2009

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Hawaii in the Hawaii karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Hawaii

Counties

County-level records have not been compiled for this taxon. Distribution is recorded at state and karst-region level.

Karst regions

Hawaii

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
COI mitochondrial 35 415-523 bp EU309858.1
COII mitochondrial 35 430-505 bp EU418185.1
wingless nuclear 35 304-450 bp EU418247.1

105 sequences, retrieved 23 August 2026. Counts change as sequences are deposited. Search GenBank.

Download all 105 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Type material

Paratype ×3
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 3

3 cataloged lots in 1 collection. Compiled from GBIF and not an exhaustive census: many collections are not yet digitised, and holdings are added continually. Search GBIF for specimen records.

Download all 3 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

GBIF
10587600
iNaturalist
311548
NCBI Taxonomy
489710

How to cite this account

Schrankia howarthi Davis & Medeiros, 2009. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0925. https://cavebiology.org/species/schrankia-howarthi/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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