Colo Vale species
Overview
Colo Vale is home to the Koala and many special plants. It is one of the northern locaitons that connects to the Great Western Wildlife Corridor and the important East-West connection to the Upper Nepean State Conservation Area (high conservation value water catchment land).
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26 species
Austroaeschna obscura (Sydney Mountain Darner)
Austroargiolestes icteromelas (Common Flatwing)
Austrogomphus guerini (Yellow-striped Hunter)
Bobilla killara (Pygmy Cricket)
Candalides xanthospilos (Yellow-spotted Blue)
Delias nigrina (Black Jezebel)
Dindymus versicolor (Harlequin Bug)
Dolichoderus doriae (Dolly ant)
Enchoptera apicalis (Longhorn beetle)
Heteronympha merope (Common Brown Butterfly)
Macrones sp. (genus) (A wasp mimicking longhorn beetle)
Melangyna viridiceps (Hover fly)
Merimnetes sp. (genus) (A weevil)
Mordella dumbrelli (Dumbrell's Pintail Beetle)
Myrmecia tarsata (Bull ant or Bulldog ant)
Neolucia agricola (Fringed Heath-blue)
Nymphes myrmeleonoides (Blue eyes lacewing)
Paropsis pictipennis (Tea-tree button beetle)
Paropsisterna nigerrima (Leaf beetle, Button beetle)
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Land area
6.5K
ha
ha
Survey effort
0.02
sightings per ha
sightings per ha
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Insects
- Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
- Bees (Hymenoptera, Apiformes)
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Beetles (Coleoptera)
- Click beetles (Elateridae)
- Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)
- Carab beetles (Carabidae)
- Jewel beetles (Buprestidae)
- Lady beetles (Coccinellidae)
- Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)
- Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae)
- Stag beetles (Lucanidae)
- Water beetles (several families)
- Weevils (Curculionoidea)
- Other beetles
- Checkered Beetles (Cleridae)
- Rove beetles (Staphylinidae)
- Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera)
- Cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadoidea)
- Cockroaches (Blattodea, several families)
- Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata)
- Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera)
- Leafhoppers & planthoppers (Hemiptera, several families)
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Moths (Lepidoptera)
- Anthelid moths (Anthelidae)
- Case moths (Psychidae)
- Concealer moths (Oecophoridae)
- Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae)
- Emperor moths (Saturniidae)
- Geometer moths (Geometridae)
- Hawk moths (Sphingidae)
- Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae)
- Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae)
- Sun moths (Castniidae)
- Swift and Ghost moths (Hepialidae)
- Tiger moths (Arctiinae)
- Tortricid moths (Tortricidae)
- Wood moths (Cossidae)
- Other moths
- Praying mantises (Mantodea)
- Primitive insects
- Psyllids, lerps, aphids & whiteflies (Hemiptera, several families)
- Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta)
- Scale insects & mealybugs (Hemiptera, Coccoidea)
- Stick insects (Phasmatodea)
- True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera)
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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)
- Pelecorhynchid flies (Pelecorhynchidae)
- Robber flies (Asilidae)
- Stiletto flies (Therevidae)
- Tangle-vein flies (Nemestrinidae)
- Other true flies
- Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita)
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Other insects
- Plant Lice (Psocodea, Pscoptera, several families)
- Caddisflies (Trichoptera)
- Dobsonflies & Alderflies (Megaloptera)
- Earwigs (Dermaptera)
- Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)
- Scorpionflies and Hangingflies (Mecoptera)
- Stoneflies (Plecoptera)
- Termites (superfamily Termitoidea)
- Thrips (Thysanoptera)
- Webspinners (Embioptera)
- Fleas (Siphonaptera)
- Lice (Psocodea, Phthiraptera, several families)
- Lacewings (Neuroptera)
- Unidentified Insect Galls
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