Observations by annaleze

Hand collected in gravel parking lot at the Craigeburn ski field.
Winged insect, wings covering all of abdomen. Two pairs of wings. Forewings are hard and horny in texture, meeting in a straight line without overlapping and usually concealing membranous hind wings. Abdomen without forceps-like cerci.
Antennae lacking an asymmetrical club. Legs not adapted for digging. Elytra covering all of dorsal surface of abdomen. Tarsal segmentation 3-3-3. Convex; strikingly marked (black and red); antennae with 3 segmented club.

Caught by hand on lounge floor.
Winged insect. Fore wings hard and horny in texture, hind wings vestigal. Abdomen provided with forceps-like cerci at end.
Tegmina present. Second tarsal segment produced below third and expanded laterally.

Collected using a sweep net

Winged insect with two pairs of wings. Forewings not hard and horny. Forewings and hindwings similar in texture. Wings largely transparent. Mouthparts not cone-like as in Thysanoptera; and are situated at front of head. Antennae small and bristle-like. Forewing and hind wing nearly equal in size; tip of abdomen without terminal filaments. Medium-sized insect, eyes widely separated. Forewings and hindwings similar in shape; petiolate. Male with a pair of superior appendages below the anus. Pterostigma at least 3 times as long as deep, costal and hind margins of pterostigma subequal. Length of body about 45mm. Body blackish with blue markings (male).

Winged insects; with two pairs of wings. Fore wing not hard. Fore wings and hind wings different in texture and structure, forewing horny or leathery, hind wing membranous. Fore wings thick and leathery at base, without veins; membranous at tip. Mouthparts forming a sucking beak. Fore wings uniform texture, without sharp differentiation into a basal sclerotized corium and an apical membrane, usually held roof-wise over body; insertion of labium (elongate hind mouthpart into which the sucking stylets fit) close to prosternum. Tarsi with 3 segments. Mid coxae elongate, widely separated; pedicel of antennae (2nd segment) enlarged, often bulbous, with numerous wart-like sensilla. Hind tibia without large moveable spur; macropterous forms. Hind tarsomere II small with rounded or acute apex bearing at most 1 ablateral and 1 adlateral spine. Hind tarsomere II with 1 ablateral and 1 adlateral spine apically; forewing granulate between anal veins. Vertex large, flat, and projecting anteriorly; colour green.

Caught in a sweep net

Winged insect with 2 pairs of wings; not hard and horny in texture. Wings similar in texture and structure; covered in microscopic overlapping scales. Mouthparts in form of coiled proboscis.
Antenna apically tapered; flagellar segments serrate. Forewing and hindwing dissimilar venation; forewing with a retinaculum. Tympanal organs present, with a scaled collar, divided on dorsal midline between head and metathorax. Haustellum nude; maxillary palps palps absent. Chaetosemata present (were destroyed by accident while inspecting mouthparts). Broad triangular forewings.

Hand collected on a windowsill.
Winged insect. Two pairs of wings. Fore wings and hind wings similar in texture and structure. Mouthparts not a piercing-sucking beak and normally situated at the front of the head. Antennae conspicuous and of different forms. Wings with few veins and cross veins with larger cells. Tarsi five segmented. Fore wings larger than hind wings, abdomen constricted at base.
Abdomen petiolate; hind wing with 2 or fewer closed basal cells. Pronotum not reaching back to tegula. Lateral pronotum with a rounded lobe fringed with fine hairs (=spiracle cover lobe), sometimes obscured by dense hairs. First segment of hind tarsus elongate, as long or longer than remaining segments combined, usually thickened and flattened; some body hairs (usually on thorax) branched or plumose; abdomen never petiolate. Forewing with 3 submarginal cells. Basal vein of forewing straight or only slightly arched; jugal lobe of hindwing about the same length or shorter than submedian cell.
Stigma never longer than half the length of the second submarginal cell.

Caught by hand.

Winged insect with two pairs of wings. Forewings not hard or horny in texture; but are similar in texture and structure (transparent).
Chewing/biting mouthparts situated at front of the head. Conspicuous antennae. Abdomen constricted at base. Wings with few veins and cross veins with larger cells. Tarsi 5-segmented, forewings larger than hind wings, abdomen constricted at base. The abdomen is petiolate, hind wing with 2 closed cells. Abdominal segments not humped as in Formicidae. Pronotum reaches tegula. Venation complete. Hind trochanters 1-segmented, antennae 12 segmented. Ovipositor short, issuing from apex of abdomen. Forewings naturally folded longitudinally at rest; lateral pronotum and mesopleuron meeting without overlapping. Mesopleuron lacking transverse suture; legs not exceptionally long.

Caught in a sweep net.
Winged insect with two pairs of wings. Forewings and hindwings are similar in texture and structure; not hard and horny. Large wings; are transparent. Mouthparts not a piercing sucking beak and are situated at front of head. Antennae small and bristle-like.
Large insect, eyes touching dorsally. Fore and hindwings differ in shape. ; hindwings broad near base. Eyes touching at top of head. Triangle in forewing about twice as wide as deep. Fore and rear wing triangles similar in shape. Body dark with two strong yellowish diagonal lines on side of thorax. Costa is brown in colour.

Caught using sweep net.
Winged insect. Two pairs of wings. Fore wings are not hard. Forewings and hindwings similar in texture and structure. Mouthpart coiled proboscis. Antenna apically clubbed and the flagellar segments cyclindrical, forewing lacking a jugum or retinaculum.
Tarsal claws bifid, fore legs fully developed and functional.

Caught in a sweep net.
Antennae apically clubbed; forewing lacking a jugum or retinaculum; diurnal, broad-winged brightly patterned Lepidoptera.
Tarsal claws rarely bifid, fore leg in male reduced. Eyes notched or emarginate at base of antennae; foreleg reduced but still functional in male.

Hand collected from a table.
Winged insect. Two pairs of wings. Fore wings and hind wings similar in texture and structure. Mouthparts not a piercing-sucking beak and normally situated at the front of the head. Antennae conspicuous and of different forms. Wings with few veins and cross veins with larger cells. Tarsi five segmented. Fore wings larger than hind wings, abdomen constricted at base.
Abdomen petiolate; hind wing with 2 or fewer closed basal cells. Pronotum not reaching back to tegula. Lateral pronotum with a rounded lobe fringed with fine hairs (=spiracle cover lobe), sometimes obscured by dense hairs. First segment of hind tarsus elongate, as long or longer than remaining segments combined, usually thickened and flattened; some body hairs (usually on thorax) branched or plumose; abdomen never petiolate. Forewing with 3 submarginal cells. Basal vein of forewing straight or only slightly arched; jugal lobe of hindwing about the same length or shorter than submedian cell.
Stigma never longer than half the length of the second submarginal cell.

Hand caught on a rose bush.

Winged insect with two pairs of wings; forewings not membranous. Forewings not hard and horny in texture. Forewings and hind wings different in texture and structure, forewing leathery and with veins throughout, hind wing membranous. Chewing mouthparts. Hind legs not enlarged. Markedly elongate, usually more than three times as long as wide. Fore legs raptorial; protharax usually narrow and elongate, Pronotum broad, as wide as head, more or less straight sides and with lateral carinae, forelegs with inner surface of coxae uniformly yellow, femur with conspicuous blue patches on inner surface (assumed as has been discoloured).

Family Nymphalidae
Collected using a sweep net.
Winged insect. With two pairs of wings, forewings not membranous. Forewings not hard and horny in texture. Forewings and hindwings similar in texture. Mouthparts in form of coiled proboscis.Antenna apically clubbed. Forewing lacking a jugum or retinaculum. Tarsal claws not bifid. Eyes entire, contiguous with antennal socket, fore leg abbreviated non-functional often brush-like in most sexes.

Found newly deceased on gravely driveway.
Superfamily: Noctuoidea

Winged insect with two pairs of wings; forewings not membranous. Forewings not hard and horny in texture. Forewings and hindwings similar in texture and structure. Wings covered in microscopic scales. Antenna are apically tapered. Flagellar segments long-setose. Forewing and hindwing with dissimilar venation. Tympanal organs present, externally visible in the region of the thoraco-abdominal junction. Chaetosemata absent. Forewings often more rectangular; usually compact stout moths with stout bodies.

Genus Caedicia.
Hand collected on door step.
Winged insect with two pairs of wings. Forewings leathery and with veins throughout, with chewing or sucking mouth parts. Antennae long and thin, of more than 30 segments. Tarsi 4 segmented. Wings present, fully developed. Wings large, tent-like. Body uniform green; ovipositor very short, strongly curved.