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• Mantodea spp. Praying Mantid Praying Mantis

  13 Dec 2017 • -37.8,144.3 • Cathy Powers

  Just the head of a large brown praying mantis. Note the three 'red' eyes between the antennae.

  

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• Sympycnodes dunnorum

  13 Dec 2017 • -37.8,144.3 • Cathy Powers

  Had four come to the light-trap and three had worn scales, one to the point of almost none left on the forewings. They flutter around and do not come to rest very easily. Once they have landed, they look for something to get beneath.

  

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• Idaea philocosma Flecked Wave

  13 Dec 2017 • -37.9,145.3 • Leuba Ridgway

  This slightly pearly, creamy moth had a wing span of about 20 mm. The wings had dark flecks - about three rows on the fore wings and two on the hind wings. The trailing margin of each wing had a thin dark broken line and a short white fringe. Attracted to garden lights on a warm night - mixed native trees around.

  

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• Gryllacrididae spp. Raspy Crickets Hyalogryllacris spp.

  13 Dec 2017 • -37.8,144.3 • Cathy Powers

  Help with ID would be greatly appreciated.

  

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  1. David Francis  See http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_crickets/SpiderFaceCricket.htm

     Reply • 17 Dec 2017

  3. David Francis  Gryllacrididae spp. species id suggested

     Reply • 17 Dec 2017

  5. Cathy Powers  Checked with Ken Walker (Museums Victoria) and he advised that it looks like one of the many undescribed Hyalogryllacris species. My thanks to Ken.

     Reply • 17 Dec 2017

  7. Cathy Powers  And David Rentz.

     Reply • 17 Dec 2017

  9. David Francis  Hyalogryllacris sp(p). added to the database if you want to use it, Cathy.

     Reply • 18 Dec 2017

  10. • Cathy Powers  Thanks David - will do.

        Reply • 18 Dec 2017
• Leistarcha scitissimella

  13 Dec 2017 • -37.8,144.3 • Cathy Powers

  Two images, different aspects.

  

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• Neumichtis saliaris

  13 Dec 2017 • -37.8,144.3 • Cathy Powers

  

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• Unidentified

  13 Dec 2017 • Peter Clark

  

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  1. Peter Clark  tiny moth 3 pix

     Reply • 15 Dec 2017
• Unidentified

  13 Dec 2017 • Peter Clark

  

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  1. Peter Clark  3 pix

     Reply • 15 Dec 2017
• Orthorhinus klugii Vine Weevil

  13 Dec 2017 • -38.2,144.3 • Lorraine Phelan

  Weevil in suburban garden, on Sticky Boobialla.

  

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  1. Lorraine Phelan  Orthorhinus klugii. One on Bowerbird in northern Tasmania.

     Reply • 13 Dec 2017

  3. David Francis  Orthorhinus klugii now available in database.

     Reply • 13 Dec 2017
• Garrha ocellifera

  13 Dec 2017 • -37.9,145.3 • Leuba Ridgway

  This small silky peach-coloured moth had a large irregularly shaped black patch in the middle of each fore wing. Small black specks were sen along the trailing margin and the sub-marginal border. Thorax was also a sooty black. Wing span was about 15 mm. Spotted under bright lights in suburban garden. Plenty of native trees around.

  

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  1. Lauren Fraser  How beautiful!

     Reply • 14 Dec 2017