Photos / Sounds
What
Beetles (Order Coleoptera)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Pulled out of a whole in wood possibly made by this insect. Suspected to have come from a driftwood ladder purchased a month prior to the noticed damage in the wall of the house.
Photos / Sounds
What
Spiders (Order Araneae)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
8 legs, single stripe on the back manibles pointing downward
Photos / Sounds
What
Genus LasioglossumObserver
stevenmcshaneDescription
5 tarsal segments, large forewings wings with many veins and cross veins antennae low number of segments and in different forms, wings are transparent has fine hairs along the ridge of large veins thorax attached to abdomen broadly. Caught in a pan trap in organics vineyard
Photos / Sounds
What
bettle larvaeObserver
stevenmcshaneDescription
Simple eyes, hairy body, small length worm/grub like has pro legs
Photos / Sounds
What
Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Lepidoptera larvae No signs of wings simple eyes? long white hairs on the outside body looks soft shape is grub and worm like legs are hooked mouth parts not pointed down
Photos / Sounds
What
Aphids (Family Aphididae)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Tarsi with 1 or 2 segments, tarsi usually 2 segnented, basal segment small triangular. Abdomen usually with pair of cornicles. Aphididae
Photos / Sounds
What
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Hind trochanters 1 segment, antenna with 12 or more segments in female and 13 in male, oviposter short, issuing from apex or abdomen and usually withdrawn into abdomen when not in use. Vespidae movement between transverse suture, legs not exceptionaly long.
Photos / Sounds
What
Bees (Epifamily Anthophila)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
forewing with 3 sub marginal cells, abdomen not petiolate, pronotum with a rounded lobe fringed with fine hair. pronotum not reaching back to tegula.
Photos / Sounds
What
Spider-hunting Wasps (Family Pompilidae)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Tibial Spurs long large mesoplueron
Photos / Sounds
What
Lesser Meadow Katydids (Genus Conocephalus)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Long ovipositor, antennae long and thin,
Photos / Sounds
What
Canterbury Alpine Boulder Copper (Lycaena tama)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
swept while flying around stony ground
Photos / Sounds
What
Common Tussock Butterfly (Argyrophenga antipodum)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Nymphalidae, eyes entire contiguous with anttenal socket brush like foreleg, tarsal claws not bifid, antennae apically clubbed broad winged brightly colored patterns.
Photos / Sounds
What
Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapae)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Tarsal claws bifid, antennae apically clubbed, broad winged brightly patterned.
Photos / Sounds
What
Brown Shield Bug (Dictyotus caenosus)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
2 Tarsi segments, body sheild shaped, hemelytra extends to edge of body antennae exposed and visible from above, for wings are hemelytra , thickened cormium
Photos / Sounds
What
Dark-winged Fungus Gnats (Family Sciaridae)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Antenna with 6 or more distinct segments relativly simple, often filiform and longer than thorax. Discal cell and/or ocelli absent, wings usually not mottled. mesonotum without v shape suture , wing with at most one anal vein reaching wing margin, legs variable. ocelli present. Mid hind tibiae with 1 or 2 apical spurs. Antennae arising from near or above level of centre of eyes, coaxe more or less elongate, eys meeting behied antennae forming a bridge. Sciaridae
Photos / Sounds
What
Genus LasioglossumObserver
stevenmcshaneDescription
base of abdomen constricted, the abdomen more or less petiolate, hind wing with 2 or fewer closed basal cells. first abdominall segment not as above, antenna variable, wings fully developed, shortened or absent. pronotum not reachin back to tegula, lateral pronotum with a rounded lobe fringed with fine hairs sometimes obscured by dense hairs. Super family apoidea first segement of hind tarsus elongate as long or longer than remaining segements combined, usually thickened and flattened some body hairs branched or plumose abdomen never petiolate. Forewing with 3 submarginal cells. Halictidae basal vein of forewing strongly arched, jugal lobe of hindwing clearly longer than submedian cell
Photos / Sounds
What
Genus IchneuticaObserver
stevenmcshaneDescription
Found indoors on showed curtains
Photos / Sounds
What
Red Damselfly (Xanthocnemis zealandica)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Damsel fly hindering similar to forewing eyes widley sperated zygoptera, mediium sized hind and forewings similar in shape . Pterostigma diamond shape costal margin much longer than hind margin.Body length less than 41mm. Coenagrionidae
Photos / Sounds
What
Kikihi Cicadas (Genus Kikihia)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Hemiptera fore wings, when present of more or less uniform texture, without sharp differentiation into a basal sclerotized corium and an apical membrane, usually held roof wise over body. Insertion of labium close to prosternun. Tarsi with 3 segments mid coaxe short , not midley seperated, pedicle of antennae not or scarcley thicker than shape, without wart like sensilla. Cicadidae three ocelli on top of gead, fore femora thickend.
Photos / Sounds
What
Swamp Crane Fly (Zelandotipula novarae)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Mesonotum with transverse v-shape suture, wing with two complete anal veins reaching the wing margin legs long and slender. Nematocera, antenna over 6 or more distinct segments, relativly simple often filiform and larger than thorax. Discal cell and / or ocelli absent, usually not mottled
Photos / Sounds
What
Greenbottle Flies (Genus Lucilia)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Ptilinal suture present. cyclorrapha meropleuron with row of bristles and pteropleuron with one or more bristles vein m1 almost always strongly bent foward, sub scutellum not well developed abdominal tergites with variable bristles artista usually plumose at least in part. Calliphoridae, colour often metallic Arista usually plumose beyoned basal half
Photos / Sounds
What
Common Garden Katydid (Caedicia simplex)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Orthoptera, grasshopper , weta or locust. Cyndrical body with elongated legs for jumping. Tettigonidae, wings present,fully developed or brachypterous. Caecidia, wings large, tent like body uniform, bright green colour ovipositor very short, strongly curved.
Photos / Sounds
What
Blue Damselfly (Austrolestes colensonis)Observer
stevenmcshaneDescription
Eyes very wide, wings petiolate and running parellel to body fore wings not hard and horny, mouthparts not in form of a coiled probosicus cone like beak. Pterostigma is three times as long as deep with costal and hind margins of pterostigma . Body is black and blue .
