Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph (Ideopsis hewitsonii), recorded as Endangered
Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph (Ideopsis hewitsonii). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph

Ideopsis hewitsonii

Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph is endemic to New Guinea (Indonesia).

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Ideopsis hewitsonii
Recorded from
Indonesia, Haiti, Malaysia
Taxonomy
Insecta · Lepidoptera · Nymphalidae · Ideopsis

The brush-footed butterfly

Brush-footed butterflies hold the first pair of legs reduced. The family includes fritillaries, admirals, and crows.

Moths and butterflies have scaled wings and a four-stage life: egg, caterpillar, pupa, adult. Most named species are known from a handful of specimens and a type locality.

Range and habitat

It is endemic to New Guinea (Indonesia).

GBIF currently lists 47 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet

The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.

Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.

In crisis

Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.

Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Hewitson's small tree-nymph — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q1374558 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph?
It is endemic to New Guinea (Indonesia).
What is the conservation status of Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Ideopsis hewitsonii. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph live?
It is endemic to New Guinea (Indonesia).
Why is Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph in crisis?
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Ideopsis hewitsonii?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.