Allocasuarina along Cleve Road near Campoona, South Australia. September 2021.
Activity
Little scorpion ~eye-level on tree trunk. In white light and in 365 nm UV light. Spotlighting from camp.
Sighting and photos (c) krengland.
Field Notes - Found in bathroom
From Robert Raven:
"Few barychelids fit: Trittame, Mandjelia, Ozicrypta maybe even the elusive Moruga not Idiommata"
Voucher observation D.Nicolle 7969.
Mallee 2 to 5 metres tall. Canopy fully juvenile to near fully adult (variable between individuals here), but mostly fully juvenile or very mixed. Growing in swale between dunes in orange-brown sandy-loam, forming open mallee with Eucalyptus concinna.
Voucher observation D.Nicolle 7961.
Spreading mallee to 4 metres tall. Scattered clumps in chenopod shrubland on red loam plain.
Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 7959.
Mallee to 9 metres tall. Bark rough for 1 to 2 metres, then smooth above. Growing on undulating, pale red sandy-loam in mallee shrubland.
Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 7572 (original + F1 seedlings).
Tree to 11 metres tall. Bark smooth throughout or rough for <1 metre, cream to pale tan. Adult leaves dull, green. Growing on sandstone outcrops on rise with Corymbia ferrugineasubsp. ferruginea, Eucalyptus aurantiaca and E. phoenicea.
Seedling leaves broad-lanceolate, ±concolorous, dull, green, slightly scabrid. Stems terete, hairy.
Could be from the genus Cheiracanthum, most specifically the species mildei since it has a similar anatomy. The pedipalps are quite large with the large segment of the pedipalp having a dark black colour much like that of Cheircanthum mildei. Though I am unsure because this type of arachnid is not endemic nor usually seen in New Zealand.
Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 7958.
Mallee to 5 metres tall. Leaves very glossy, green. Locally dominant on red sandy-loam rise over limestone.
I heard a loud call from a bird and found this female Tarantula had come out of her burrow and grabbed this bird.
The fish (possibly brown trout) was in a pond directly below the hindmarsh falls observation spot. Looked to be about 30cms long.