Found on underside of small chunk of wood in slightly damp sclerophyll forest.
Found on underside of medium-sized chunk of decomposing wood within wet sclerophyll forest.
Found on underside of medium-sized chunk of decomposing wood within wet sclerophyll forest.
Otiorhynchus cribricollis (added later...no it isn't...see Boris' comments below).. This is a European import. According to PADIL it isn't in Tasmania, but this is my second find (with a 10 year gap) of the species, both around my house. www.padil.gov.au/pests-and-diseases/pest/pests-and-diseas...
Sample from Malaise trap, Aranda, ACT, Australia, 12-19 February 2021
Found beneath decomposing, mossy wood among wet sclerophyll forest/rainforest.
Live collected.
6.5mm...possibly submaculatus [a species collected on mountain in past] with full clothing, though length of apical declivity seems short. Zimmerman image is naked, Lea description adds detail which is more supportive.
Another found in March 2022, identical clothing similar size.
Both found on Sloanea australis
Lea 1928 mentions P. submaculatus similarity to a species maculatus, a name which would suit this one's prominent elytral spot, but aside from that comment in notes on the description of submaculatus, there is no record or description of such a species,.
have found three of the last month in same area, ranging from 5-7mm. Too small for Acidinus.
Some similarity to P. parvidens, but smaller, and prothorax less broad.
[Edit 12/04] found a fourth, also on Sloanea australis, same location
Photos taken by Leon Altoff and supplied by Audrey Falconer of the Marine Research Group, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.
Slight image adjustments done by myself.
Photos taken by Leon Altoff and supplied by Audrey Falconer of the Marine Research Group, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.
Slight image adjustments done by myself.
Photos taken by Leon Altoff and supplied by Audrey Falconer of the Marine Research Group, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.
Slight image adjustments done by myself.
Buried in sediment in calm stream.
Warringine Creek; west of Frankston - Flinders Road, Hastings. Victoria, Australia.
Within seagrass (Zostera) in brackish river with muddy bottom; occasionally sympatric with Tatea rufilabris.
Underside of submerged wood in small, slightly-turbid creek with gravelly (granite) bottom.
Sparse; not abundantly found.
Beach darkling-beetle Hyocis bakewelli, Stony Head, Tasmania, March 2021
Workers were found in a makeshift termite bait made of a PVC pipe with holes drilled into the side, it was buried in the ground (the top of it was surface level so you could access the inside and a stone was placed on top to act as a cover) and pine wood was put inside, the wood was rotting when I checked it. Termites (Reticulitermes sp.) were present and workers were seen walking in the tunnels that the termites made in the wood. Workers were also seen on the inside and bottom of the PVC pipe.
Very happy to have found these and definitely wasn't expecting to.
The aeolid nudibranch is an undescribed species of Flabellina. Richard Willan 020413 (Also look at Flabellina sp2 pp233 Nudibranch encyclopaedia. IShaw 171115)
Flinders Island charopid snail. During our Bush Blitz on Flinders Island in March 2014, we found this to be a common species in woodland, but it is apparently very different from any known species from mainland Tasmania and doesn't even have a generic name yet, let alone a full species name.
Among small stones in small, flowing seepage.
Hardys Creek. Sherbrooke. Victoria, Australia.
not sure which snail this is. Found in similar location to snail found in 2019. In dead wood.
in the bathroom. Long, extendible head end. off-white underside.
Originally identified as Podomyrma odae on Bowerbird.
oak canyon, deep in rockpiles; undescribed species
Second Mottled Flatworm
Identified as Seriata on Bowerbird by Dr Leigh Winsor
It was a very exciting moment when I saw this, not only because it is such a magnificent animal, but also because my brother and I have been looking without luck for this for many years!
Leaf litter samples were taken in the Hunua Range at the Winstone Aggregates mining site. Insects captured but needs identifying.
Identification: Trinodicalles conicollis (Broun, 1913)
Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Orakei, Pourewa Reserve.
Habitat: Pitfall traps. Collected by G. Hall. Set for about 1 week. Habitat must have been in bush (check with Grace).
Identification: Trinodicalles terricola (Broun, 1885). Identified by S. E. Thorpe.
NEW ZEALAND AK, Bethells, Matuku Reserve, Malaise trap (Carpark trap), 30 Oct-13 Dec 2016, T. Van Noort.
Identification: Crooktacalles abruptus (Marshall, 1937).
Jewel-beetle Castiarina rudis, Ben Lomond, Tasmania, February 2022
Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus.
Habitat: At base of Arthropodium cirratum, in a garden bed outside building 733, on level 1.
Identification: Dysnocryptus inflatus (Sharp, 1876).
Animals collected between 30 and 80 m in Eucalyptus obliqua old-growth forest in Southern Hemisphere Summer 2003-4 More info and detailed branch maps at https://outreachecology.com/tag/canopy-arthropods/ and https://www.GIANT-TREES.com
apologize for poor quality photo, found during lighttrap
Similar Brown Snail
Identified as Oreomava cannfluviatilus on Bowerbird by Kevin Bonham: "Tentative ID - would need to see high-res close-up of protoconch sculpture to be more confident."
1.5 mm diameter snail found on decaying Pomaderris apetala alongside a pink Arcyria slime mould.
Tentative ID as this is the species with previous Tasmanian records from Bridport area. Photo by @simongrove . Have seen many polyxenidans in Tasmania but not this one - very fast running!
(Hadramphus pittospori)
On young Karo trunk. Approx 20-25mm body length, 10mm body width.
Quite small, 5mm or less. Anyone able to ID this to genus level or lower?
Trinodicalles conicollis (Broun, 1913)
Ex pitfall trap sample from Corinne Watts, labelled as follows:
Maungatautari - South Cell
Inside Cell
Transect 2
Pitfall trap: G
20 Nov-17 Dec 2008
Beetles