Campsicnemus mirabilis (lat.) - The extinct species of green-fly flies (Dolichopodidae), which previously inhabited the Hawaiian Islands . It was their endemic [1] .
| † Campsicnemus mirabilis |
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| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Subtype : | Tracheo-breathing |
| Infraclass : | Winged insects |
| Treasure : | Fully Transformed Insects |
| Suborder : | Short-winged Diptera |
| Infrastructure : | Asilomorpha |
| View: | † Campsicnemus mirabilis |
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| International scientific name |
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Campsicnemus mirabilis ( Grimshaw ) |
| Synonyms |
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- Emperoptera mirabilis Grimshaw
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| Security status |
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Extinct speciesIUCN 3.1 Extinct : 3719 |
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Campsicnemus mirabilis could not fly, there is no information about life on trees, representatives found were, for the most part, found in dead cover .
Insects were found in 1902 on the Tantalus Peak slag cone , but they were not found in the 1980s. The cause or causes of extinction is not known for certain.
The species was originally described as Emperoptera mirabilis , but in 1964 was placed in the genus Campsicnemus . In 1997, Neil Evenhus returned him to Emperoptera [2] , but this was not confirmed by the rest of the taxonomists [1] .
