KimberiRP

Kimberi (Kim) Pullen. Retired CSIRO entomologist. Began collecting insects at school age and has never stopped observing and studying them. Currently compiling a catalogue of the insect species of the ACT.

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Beetles (Coleoptera)  |  Carab beetles (Carabidae) Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) Click beetles (Elateridae) Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) Jewel beetles (Buprestidae) Lady beetles (Coccinellidae) Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) Other beetles Rove beetles (Staphylinidae) Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Stag beetles (Lucanidae) Water beetles (several families) Weevils (Curculionoidea) Cockroaches (Blattodea, several families) Lacewings (Neuroptera) Antlions (Myrmeleontidae) Brown Lacewings (Hemerobiidae) Green Lacewings (Chrysopidae) Other Lacewings (several families) Leafhoppers & planthoppers (Hemiptera, several families) Other insects Caddisflies (Trichoptera) Dobsonflies & Alderflies (Megaloptera) Earwigs (Dermaptera) Fleas (Siphonaptera) Lice (Psocodea, Phthiraptera, several families) Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) Plant Lice (Psocodea, Pscoptera, several families) Scorpionflies and Hangingflies (Mecoptera) Stoneflies (Plecoptera) Termites (superfamily Termitoidea) Thrips (Thysanoptera) Webspinners (Embioptera) Praying mantises (Mantodea) Primitive insects Other primitive insects Silverfish (Zygentoma) Springtails (Collembola) Psyllids, lerps, aphids & whiteflies (Hemiptera, several families) Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) Scale insects & mealybugs (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) Stick insects (Phasmatodea) True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) Assassin bugs (Reduviidae) Other true bugs Shield, Stink & Jewel Bugs (Pentatomoidea) Water & Shore Bugs (several families) True flies (Diptera) Bee flies (Bombyliidae) Blow flies (Calliphoridae) Bristle Flies (Tachinidae) Crane flies, midges, mosquitoes & gnats (several families) Flower-loving flies (Apioceridae) Hover flies (Syrphidae) Long-legged Flies (Dolichopodidae) March or Horse flies (Tabanidae) Mydas flies (Mydidae) Other true flies Pelecorhynchid flies (Pelecorhynchidae) Robber flies (Asilidae) Stiletto flies (Therevidae) Tangle-vein flies (Nemestrinidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Flower wasps (Scoliidae & Tiphiidae) Other wasps Parasitic wasps (numerous families) Potter wasps (Vespidae, Eumeninae) Sand or digger wasps (Crabronidae & Sphecidae) Social or paper-nest wasps (Vespidae, Polistinae & Vespinae) Spider wasps (Pompilidae) Velvet Ants (Mutillidae)

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Fungi

• Caps on stems; gills below caps [mushrooms or mushroom-like]
• Caps on stems; pores below caps [boletes & stemmed polypores]
  • Boletes - Fleshy texture, stems central (more-or-less)
  • Polypores - Non-fleshy texture, stems central or lateral
• Caps on stems; teeth below caps
• Caps on stems; none of the above
  • Caps conical/spherical & deeply pitted [morels]
  • Caps saddle-like to markedly convoluted [false morels]
  • Caps funnel-like
  • Caps otherwise
• Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]
  • Furry, white or greyish upper surfaces
  • Gills connected by cross veins
  • Other caps, gills below, no stem
• Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood
  • Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores]
  • Teeth on underside
  • Underside smooth or wrinkled/roughened <Stereum etc>
• Puffballs & the like
  • Simple spore sac, with an apical hole [puffballs]
  • Spore sac on a star-like base [earthstars]
  • Fruitbody thick walled, splitting from the top
  • Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores
  • Other puffballs, etc (& the unknowns)
• Stinkhorns: with a smelly, brownish spore slime
  • Stinkhorns, radiating arms atop a stem
  • Stinkhorns, cage-like
  • Stinkhorns, some other shape- and miscellaneous
• Clubs or stalks (maybe a forked or broader apex)
  • Clubs/stalks on soil
  • Clubs/stalks on wood or on leaf/twig litter
  • Clubs/stalks on invertebrates
• Coralloid fungi, markedly branched
• Disk-like to cup-like
  • Cup with one or more 'eggs' inside [birds nest fungi and cannonball fungus]
  • Cups or disks - with no 'eggs'
• Convoluted to brain-like [Brain jelly & look-alikes]
• Fungal galls, other rusts, leaf spots, etc
  • Fungal galls
  • Other rusts, leaf spots, sooty moulds
• Other fungi on wood
  • Jelly-like; smooth, featureless surface
  • Spherical or cobblestone-like or spotted/pimpled crust <perithecial>
  • Other black fungi <hysterothecial>
  • Other non-black fungi
• Truffles
• Other fungi
  • Moulds
  • Not moulds
• Uncategorised Fungi