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Wattles (Genus Acacia)Observer
amybucknerDescription
Garden plant in main street.
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Orange Assassin Bug (Gminatus australis)Observer
vitexlucensDescription
Forensic entomology. Caught in the cabin air filter of a car imported from Australia to Auckland. It could have been sitting around in both places for a while.
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Genus GynoplistiaObserver
steve_kerrDescription
10 mm
cf. G. tuberculata (male)
The male has never been formally described. This specimen conforms to the female description on several points.
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Long-legged Flies (Family Dolichopodidae)Observer
steve_kerrDescription
Caught by James Tweed
3 mm
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Genus TetrachaetusObserver
steve_kerrDescription
Caught by James Tweed.
a novel species; 5.8 mm
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Balloon Flies (Genus Hilara)Observer
petaimmaca68Description
ID computer suggestion. This one landed on track looking half dead but resumed normal stance during photo shoot.
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Geodorcus philpottiObserver
tonyjewellDescription
Female beneath small rotten log in beech forest.
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Genus HeliusObserver
greyoneDescription
1 image is of it alive + on a wall, the other image of it dead + point-mounted.
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House Flies and Allies (Family Muscidae)Observer
steve_kerrDescription
Possibly genus Idiohelina ?
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House Flies and Allies (Family Muscidae)Observer
steve_kerrDescription
Muscoidea: Muscidae: Idiohelina sp. ?
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House Flies and Allies (Family Muscidae)Observer
steve_kerrDescription
female, 8 mm
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Astetholea pauperObserver
stephen_thorpeDescription
Taunton Terrace Reserve, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland. Coastal forest.
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Lantana Lace Bug (Teleonemia scrupulosa)Observer
f_martoniDescription
On Lantana
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f_martoniDescription
Very hard to take photos of. About 1mm in length, moving relatively fast..
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Genus MicrolamiaObserver
f_martoniDescription
Tentative ID.
Body size (without antennae) about 3mm
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Genus TetrachaetusObserver
steve_kerrDescription
5.5 mm
caught by James Tweed
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Subgenus CerozodiaObserver
wendyjwhiteDescription
No scale in photo, but this insects body would have been about 2cm long.
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Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles (Subfamily Lamiinae)Observer
carey-knox-southern-scalesDescription
Guess
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Lemon Tree Borer (Oemona hirta)Observer
rubenmitaDescription
Parasitised with a fungus
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Lemon Tree Borer (Oemona hirta)Observer
petaimmaca68Description
The beetle, about 18 mm long.
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Genus GibellulaObserver
tyson_ehlersDescription
Synnemata: arising from whole host, erect, cylindrical, tapering to a pointed tip, greyish white, 0.8-1.9x0.2-4.2 mm. Hyphae hyaline, smooth (?), septate, averaging 3 um. Conidiopohores greenish-white to pale green; conidial head wedge-shaped, hemispherical, arising from a swollen vesicle (8.5-13.3x6.7-7.2). Metulae: broadly cylindric-obovoid, 7.9-9.5x3-3.6. Philiades: narrowly clavate to subcylindrical, smooth, hyaline, 8.4-10.2x2.5-3.9. Conidia: bacilliform, sometimes ellipsoidal, 3.8-5.3 x 1.2-2.2
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Ceratomerus mayaeObserver
caddisflyguyDescription
A couple of specimens were collected in my emergence trap in the Tukituki River. I presume they are aquatic, but since Diptera are out of my expertise any help would be appreciated (I know they are not Chironomidae, but that's the limit of my knowledge).
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Genus CerdistusObserver
dianneatDescription
Has caught and feasting on a bee, hitched a ride on end of golf driver in bag!!
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Genus CerdistusObserver
suzieandjimDescription
Not sure what is happening here
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ryan_nzDescription
Brief encounter (one photograph) before it very quickly departed.
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Pug Moths & Allies (Tribe Eupitheciini)Observer
possumsendDescription
Drawn to light at 1200m. Maybe P. lunata?
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Meterana tetrachroaObserver
aalbertrebergenDescription
On one of my Olearia hectorii...
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Bee-mimic Robber Flies (Genus Laphria)Observer
triplettDescription
about 10mm long
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greyDescription
Pupae (2) found inside a rotting branch of Chatham Island Akeake (Olearia traversiorum) were placed in a glass jar with some of the substrate material they were living in. Within 2-3 days adult crane flies hatched from both pupae (photos 4-6). The last 2 photos show an empty pupal case.
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steve_kerrDescription
Found by Cherry Laurenson
Collected by William Brockelsby and Eric Edwards
brachypterous male
length (excl. antennae) 15 mm
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Genus ThereutriaObserver
valryrDescription
Female observed laying eggs in soil of lower Forest.
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Bee-mimic Robber Flies (Genus Laphria)Observer
lekDescription
A fly perched on a leaf, in a nature reserve.
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Genus MairaObserver
richardyankDescription
Tiny (5mm or less) robber fly at Weda Pass, Halmahera, Indonesia
