... Typically, reserve selection is based on representative community types classified primarily by vegetation. Whether they contain representative faunal communities has been little tested. The distribution and abundance of carabid beetles from 41 sites, representing a range of plant community...

... A native grassland remnant on private property on the Western Basalt Plains of Victoria was investigated to determine the composition and relative abundance of the Formicidae (ant), Coleoptera (beetle), and Araneae (spider) fauna. One hundred and sixty morpho-species were identified, comprising...

... named after Darwin: a Leaf beetle Idiocephala darwini ; a Seed bug Ontiscus darwini ; a Gasteruptiid wasp Foenus darwinii ; and a Bee Halictus darwiniellus . The remaining novel insects comprise six Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), four Stink bugs (Pentatomidae), a Seed bug (Lygaeidae), an Assassin bug...

..., the University's infrastructure, and open agricultural lands. The data presented in this chapter are opportunistic records of species recorded since the early 1990s. Based on these data, both taxa of protected invertebrates of the area, Cumberland Plain Land Snail Meridolum corneovirens and jewel beetles...

... Ground-dwelling ants, beetles and spiders were surveyed at 239 forest sites in north-east New South Wales. The level of dissimilarity in species composition between these sites is analysed in relation to inter-site differences in a number of remotely mapped environmental and vegetational...

... in the Sydney region were sampled using pitfall and water traps to collect ants, beetles, spiders, flies and wasps over six days in Autumn 1997. Monte Carlo simulations were used to examine the nestedness of assemblages of arthropod species in heath and woodland fragments in the Sydney region. Only flies...