Linda and Roger's Southwater Downs

A Starter List of Animals in the Area – Part 2


This page contains a list of animals observed within 5km of the location '4210 Illawarra Highway, Robertson NSW', as extracted from the Atlas of Living Australia database on 10 April 2011.

The intention is to assist in building up an understanding of the fauna that may be in the rainforest. But most of the sightings were from eucalypt forests and agricultural land rather than lilli pilli rainforest, and it's likely that many of these species would not be found in the rainforest.

The list has been broken into animal-groups meaningful to laypeople, and missing species-names have been interpolated.

The pragmatic groupings used are as follows. They have been split into three pages, to improve manageability:

Insects (74)

Amblyopone australis An Ant
Antyx A Fly
Aphaenogaster longiceps An Ant
Archichauliodes plomleyi A Beetle
Aulacosternum nigrorubrum Cotton Plant Bug
Delias harpalyce Imperial Jezebel
Delias nigrina Black Jezebel
Junonia villida calybe Meadow Argus
Austropsocus cuneatus A Louse
Austropsocus omega A Louse
Austropsocus tibialis A Louse
Castiarina bremei Jewel Beetle
Castiarina coeruleipes A Beetle
Castiarina ignota A Beetle
Castiarina imitator A Beetle
Castiarina indistincta A Beetle
Castiarina octomaculata A Beetle
Castiarina placens A Beetle
Castiarina producta A Beetle
Castiarina scalaris A Beetle
Castiarina sexplagiata A Beetle
Castiarina skusei A Beetle
Castiarina subgrata A Beetle
Castiarina victoriensis A Beetle
Ceratomerus maculatus A Mosquito?
Colobostruma sisypha An Ant
Diaphorus parthenus A Fly
Dinotoperla dolichoprocta A Fly
Dinotoperla uniformis A Fly
Dolichopeza subannulipes A Crane Fly
Duomyia solocifemur A Signal Fly
Epiphyas xylodes A Moth
Griseargiolestes griseus A Dragonfly
Heterocaecilius lachlani A Louse
Heteropsilopus ingenuus A Fly
Homalictus sphecodoides A Bee
Iotula microcosmos A Snail
Labiogena walteri A Mite
Lamprogaster laeta A Signal Fly
Lasioglossum bicingulatum A Fly (Chilalictus)
Lasioglossum clelandi A Fly (Chilalictus)
Lasioglossum tribuarium A Fly (Chilalictus)
Leioproctus alleynae A Bee
Leioproctus incanescens A Bee
Leioproctus speculiferus A Bee
Mepleres alettae A Fly
Mepleres tanei A Fly
Myrmecia fulvipes Bull Ant
Nannophya dalei A Dragonfly
Notoaeschna sagittata A Dragonfly
Octoliodes robustus A Mite
Palaeosia bicosta Two-Ribbed Arctiid (A Moth)
Pamborus alternans A Carabid Beetle
Pelecorhynchus personatus A Fly
Peripsocus maoricus A Fly?
Petalura gigantea Giant Dragonfly
Riekoperla sp. A Wingless Stonefly
Scutigerida sp. A Centipede
Ptycta campbelli A Fly?
Rhytidoponera confusa An Ant
Rhytidoponera victoriae An Ant
Stigmodera macularia Jewel Beetle
Strumigenys perplexa An Ant
Sympycnus anomalipennis A Fly
Sympycnus claudicans A Fly
Sympycnus discurus A Fly
Sympycnus marginatus A Fly
Sympycnus populosus A Fly
Sympycnus sedatus A Fly
Sympycnus taenicornis A Fly
Taeniostigma trickettae A Fly
Yumbera callida A Fly
Yumbera signata A Fly

Arachnids (10 Spiders and 1 Scorpion)

Cercophonius squama Forest or Wood Scorpion
Couranga kioloa A Spider
Diaea sp. A Spider
Hadronyche versuta Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider
Helpis kenilworthi A Spider
Hexachaetoniella dispersa A Spider
Holoplatys chudalupensis A Spider
Jamberoo johnnoblei A Spider
Oncodamus bidens A Spider
Paralampona kiola A Spider
Tasmanicosa leuckarti A Wolf-Spider

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Created: 10 April 2011; Last Amended: 10 April 2011