Also known as Rairua Swamp

Where: Austral Islands, French Polynesia (23.9° S, 147.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° S, 147.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Simuliids are restricted to depths of greater than 1.5 metres

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; unlithified peat

Size class: microfossils

Collected by Prebble, Porch in 2008

Collection methods: core,

• Repository: B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i. Paratypes are also deposited there, as well as in the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

•Subfossil head capsules were recovered from sediment cores from swamp sequences collected in 2008 (Austral) and 2009 (Cook). These cores were recovered using standard sampling techniques (D-Section or piston coring) and subsampled in the field into 5 cm (Raivavae, Atiu, Mangaia) or 10 cm (Tubuai) sections. Samples were returned to the laboratory where insects and plant macrofossil were recovered by washing the sediment with water through a 250 μm sieve and hand sorting the residues under a binocular microscope.

Primary reference: D. A. Craig and N. Porch. 2013. Subfossils of extinct and extant species of Simuliidae (Diptera) from Austral and Cook Islands (Polynesia): anthropogenic extirpation of an aquatic insect?. Zootaxa 3641:448-462 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143887: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.04.2013

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