Australian Rainforest Fruits

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Cooper ◽  
William Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Ripe Fruit ◽  
Field Guide ◽  
Botanical Knowledge ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Cape York

This beautifully illustrated field guide covers 504 of the most common fruiting plants found in Australia's eastern rainforests, as well as a few species that are rare in the wild but generally well-known. These spectacular plants can be seen from Cape York to Victoria, with some species also found in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and overseas. Rainforest fruits are often beautifully coloured, and in this guide the species are arranged by colour of ripe fruit, then by size and form. Five broad categories – pink to purple, blue to black, yellow and orange to red, green to brown, and white – allow people with even limited botanical knowledge to identify rainforest fruits. Each species description is accompanied by a leaf drawing, a distribution map, and diagnostic characters to help the reader distinguish similar species. Australian Rainforest Fruits includes stunning artwork by Australia’s leading natural history artist, William T Cooper. It will be sought not just by bushwalkers and natural history enthusiasts, but also by those who admire botanical art at its best.

A revision of the Australian species of Pareromene (Lipidoptera : Pyralidae : Crambine : Diptychophorini)

1975 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
DE Gaskin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Cape York ◽  
One New Species

Ten Australian species of diptychophorine Crambinae, alypophanes Turner, diargema Turner, dilatella (Meyrick), leucogramma Turner, microxantha Meyrick, molydocrossa Turner, ochracealis (Walker), pogonias Turner, stenura Turner, and torva Lucas, are transferred from Diptychophora Zeller to Pareromene Osthelder. One new species, queenslandensis, is described from the Cape York Peninsula. The zoogeography of the genus in Australia is briefly discussed. The species include two distinct groups, those such as queenslandensis with clear Inner Melanesian Arc island relationships, and those such as pogonias with close affinities to species distributed in the Lesser Sunda archipelago. At least two invasions of Australia by this genus appear to have taken place at different times. Pareromene has not yet been recorded from Western Australia or the Northern Territory.

scholarly journals The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4779 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-437
Author(s):  
GLENN SHEA ◽  
SCOTT THOMSON ◽  
ARTHUR GEORGES
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Cape York

The identity of Chelodina oblonga has been unclear because it has been variously defined to include populations of snake-necked chelid turtle from the southwest of Western Australia, across northern Australia, Cape York and southern New Guinea in its broadest conception, from just the northern part of this range (northern Australia and New Guinea), or restricted to the southwest corner of Western Australia in its narrowest conception. Uncertainty over the identity of the type specimens has added to the confusion. In this paper, we review the historical data on the extent of the type series of Chelodina oblonga, and its potential provenance, and find evidence that resolves some of the inconsistencies in previous literature on the identification of the type. Our analysis casts doubt on the northern Australian provenance of the type material. Hence, we return the name C. oblonga to the south-western species, in accordance with the genetic evidence for the provenance of the type in the Natural History Museum, London, and the external morphology of the type series. We designate a lectotype for the species, and redefine the subgeneric names that apply to the Australasian genus Chelodina, providing a new subgeneric name for one lineage. 

Translocation Of Mala (Lagorchestes Hirsutus) From The Tanami Desert, Northern Territory To Trimouille Island, Western Australia

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Langford ◽  
AA Burbidge
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Rattus Rattus ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Red List ◽  
Felis Catus ◽  
Feral Cats ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Conservation Park ◽  
Red List Categories ◽  
Black Rats

In June 1998, 30 mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus undescribed central Australian subspecies) were translocated from a semi-captive colony in the Tanami Desert, Northern Territory to Trimouille Island, part of the Montebello Islands Conservation Park, off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia. Mala are ?Extinct in the Wild? according to IUCN (1994, 2000) Red List Categories and Criteria. The translocation was made possible by the eradication of black rats (Rattus rattus) and confirmation of the absence of feral cats (Felis catus), which were recorded on the island in the 1970s. Post-release monitoring up to October 2001 showed that mala were breeding and expanding the area occupied.

Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Braby
Keyword(s):  
Food Plants ◽  
Species Variation ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Larval Food ◽  
Field Guide ◽  
Important Group ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Complete Field

As fascinating as they are beautiful, butterflies are a pleasure to watch and an important group of invertebrates to study. This second edition of the award-winning book The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia is a fully updated guide to all butterfly species on Australia's mainland and remote islands. Written by one of Australia's leading lepidopterists, the book is stunningly illustrated with colour photographs, many of which are new, of each of the 435 currently recognised species. There is also a distribution map and flight chart for each species on the Australian mainland, together with information on similar species, variation, behaviour, habitat, status and larval food plants. The introduction to the book covers adult structure, higher classification, distribution and habitats, as well as life cycle and behaviour. A new chapter on collecting and preserving butterflies is included. There is also an updated checklist of all species, a glossary, a bibliography and indexes of common and scientific names.

scholarly journals Descriptions of the vocalisations of the Chestnut-backed Button-quail Turnix castanotus

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Patrick Webster ◽  
◽  
Nigel Jackett ◽  
George Swann ◽  
Nicholas Leseberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Vocal Repertoire ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Contact Calls ◽  
Survey Results

Button-quail (Turnicidae) are a greatly understudied family of birds; their cryptic habits make studying them in the wild challenging. They are known to be quite vocal which could assist with detectability, and so it follows that survey results will be more reliable as knowledge about button-quail vocal repertoire increases. Until recently, there were no published vocal recordings of the Chestnut-backed Button-quail Turnix castanotus, and descriptions and accounts of this species’ vocalisations were limited. We recorded vocalisations of Chestnut-backed Button-quail at six locations across the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Three broad vocalisation types were identified: advertising ooms, drumming, and contact calls. We present descriptions and visual representations of these vocalisations, and draw comparisons with previously published accounts of this species, and other Australian button-quail.

Four new species of Splendid Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae: Aenetus) from Australia and Papua New Guinea

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4809 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-474
Author(s):  
ETHAN P. BEAVER ◽  
MICHAEL D. MOORE ◽  
JOHN R. GREHAN ◽  
ALEJANDRO VELASCO-CASTRILLÓN ◽  
MARK I. STEVENS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Gene Sequences ◽  
Mtdna Coi

Four new Aenetus Herrich-Schäffer species are described from northern Australasia; Aenetus simonseni sp. nov. from the top-end of the Northern Territory, Australia, A. maiasinus sp. nov. from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, A. trigonogrammus sp. nov. from south-eastern Queensland, Australia, and A. albadamanteum sp. nov. from eastern Papua New Guinea. Aenetus simonseni sp. nov. and A. maiasinus sp. nov. appear to belong to the tegulatus-group of species (sensu Grehan et al. 2018), A. trigonogrammus sp. nov. is part of the splendens-group of species (sensu Simonsen 2018), while A. albadamanteum sp. nov. shares morphological similarities with A. hampsoni (Joicey & Noakes, 1914), A. crameri Viette, 1956, and A. toxopeusi Viette, 1956, from New Guinea, and A. cohici Viette, 1961 from New Caledonia. The four new species are illustrated and compared with superficially similar species in morphology and, for two species, molecular (mtDNA COI gene) sequences. 

Lomandra marginata (Asparagaceae), a shy-flowering new species from south-western Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry D. Macfarlane ◽  
John G. Conran
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Floral Bract ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Related Genus ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Biological Survey ◽  
A New Species

Lomandra marginata T.D.Macfarl. & Conran is described as a new species and illustrated by photographs and a distribution map. Recognised initially from vegetative plants during a biological survey at Lochada Station, it was realised subsequently that the species is widespread from Geraldton to Corrigin. However, it apparently flowers only occasionally under favourable conditions, so earlier collections were mostly vegetative. Lomandra marginata is placed in L. series Sparsiflorae on the basis of possessing a narrow floral bract that does not encircle the pedicel and a bracteole, when present, offset rather than opposite the bract. It has distinctive membranous leaf margins resembling those of the related genus Chamaexeros and the longest pedicels in the genus, mostly 10–16mm long, on which are borne white flowers resembling those of L. effusa (Lindl.) Ewart. Although L. effusa is the most similar species in flower and inflorescence and is also a member of L. series Sparsiflorae, it differs vegetatively by having distinctly two-toothed leaf tips.

Revision of Australian species of the dung beetle genus Lepanus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): key to species groups and description of 14 new species from the L. pygmaeus species group

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4564 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICOLE L. GUNTER ◽  
THOMAS A. WEIR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Dung Beetle ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Wet Tropics ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Cape York

Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) is one of the most diverse genera of dung beetles in Australasia and includes large numbers of undescribed species. This publication is the first part in an ongoing revision of the Australian members of this genus and outlines ten informal species groups. Fourteen new species that are similar to Lepanus pygmaeus (Macleay, 1888) are described here: Lepanus mckenziei new species from the Pilbara region of Western Australia; Lepanus sauroni new species from coastal regions of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia; Lepanus gubara new species, Lepanus pecki new species, Lepanus podocarp new species and Lepanus pungalina new species from the Top End, Northern Territory; Lepanus lentil new species from the Top End, Northern Territory and central Queensland; Lepanus crenidens new species, Lepanus lingziae new species, and Lepanus menendezae new species from northern Queensland; Lepanus andersonorum new species, and Lepanus tozerensis new species from Cape York Peninsula, far north Queensland; Lepanus feehani new species from the Australian Wet Tropics; and Lepanus guthrieae new species from the east to west coast of northern Australia. Lepanus pygmaeus is redescribed and a lectotype designated for it. A lectotype is designated for Panelus arthuri Blackburn, 1900. The synonymy of L. pygmaeus with P. arthuri is confirmed. A key to species groups within Lepanus is provided, as well as a key to species in the L. pygmaeus species group. 

Peronosclerospora maydis. [Distribution map].

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Zea Mays ◽  
South America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Peronosclerospora maydis (Racib.) E. J. Butler. Hosts: Maize (Zea mays). Information is given on the geographical distribution in Africa, Zaire, Asia, China, Gunagxi, Yunnan, India, Bihar, Maharashtra, Indonesia, Java, Madura, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australasia, Australia, Northern Territory, Western Australia, South America, Venezuela.

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