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Genus ProteuxoaObserver
aliciahpDescription
The original mission of observing the garden at night was to see moths. This one threw itself violently at the garden shed where the torchlight fell.
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Excastra albopilosaObserver
jtweedDescription
Resting on an understorey plant. At a quick glance, I initially thought it was a bird dropping. The white hairs give it the appearance of being infected with an entomopathogenic fungi, maybe as a deterrent to predators...? Definitely the most amazing cerambycid I've ever seen!
Update: this species finally has a name! The paper naming and describing it can be freely downloaded from here: https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.iv1x5
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Uropoda thorpeiObserver
stephen_thorpeDescription
NEW ZEALAND AK
Site: 129 Laingholm Drive, Number: 00013
Trap: 1A-3B
Date: 19.VI.2007
Coll. J.T. Pusateri
Identification: Uropoda thorpei Kontschán, 2012.
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stephen_thorpeDescription
Maungatautari, litter MJ01, 26 Apr 2011, C.H. Watts.
Identification: Calotrachytes fimbriatipes (Michael, 1908). ID based on the literature (Michael, 1908).
REFERENCES
Michael, A.D. 1908: Unrecorded Acari from New Zealand. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, zoology, 30: 134-149, plates 17-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1908.tb02128.x [See p. 147, and 'Pl. 21. figs. 26-28 & P1.20. fig. 24'; original reference for 'Trachynotus fimbriatipes, sp. n.']
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Unarmed Stick-Insect (Acanthoxyla inermis)Observer
smankelowDescription
Walking through broom on the edge of the dog park and it brushed into my arm.
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dustinlamontDescription
specimen collected
beaten from indeterminate ornamental variegated shrub 2
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Furry Snake Millipede (Ophyiulus pilosus)Observer
leonperriePlace
Thane Road at Robieson Street (near 17), Roseneath, Wellington 6011, New Zealand (Google, OSM)
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Family PhysaraceaeObserver
krmorisonDescription
Growing on a sheep's skull. Head of fungus about 0.6 mm diameter.
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Mesostigs (Order Mesostigmata)Observer
cesarcastilloDescription
On Nicrophorus orbicollis
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Steelblue Ladybird (Halmus chalybeus)Observer
hknzDescription
Lots of Steelblue Ladybirds on a post. approx 30.
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Gray's Dragonfly (Procordulia grayi)Observer
speedymitchDescription
This was a dragon fly found on a small vine of some sort in a plot for the Linwood College Ecoblitz set up in the empty section of what is proposed to be the new schools entrance.
