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Technical annual report 2000-01

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Title

Technical annual report 2000-01

Collection

Dept. of Regional Development, Primary Industry, Fisheries and Resources technical annual report; Department of Regional Development, Primary Industry, Fisheries and Resources technical and annual report; Reports; PublicationNT; Technical bulletin (Northern Territory. Dept. of Primary Industry and Fisheries) ; no. 295

Date

2001-10

Description

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).

Notes

Date:2001-10

Language

English

Subject

Agriculture -- Northern Territory -- Periodicals; Fisheries -- Northern Territory -- Periodicals

Publisher name

Dept. of Primary Industry and Fisheries

Place of publication

Darwin

Series

Technical bulletin (Northern Territory. Dept. of Primary Industry and Fisheries) ; no. 295

ISSN

0158-2763

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Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/223369

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/687151

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Technical Annual Report 2000/01 231 Table 1. Numbers of insects, collembolans (springtails) and arachnids (spiders) collected at five Katherine sites as listed in January (J) and February (F) 2001 Site 1 Site 2a Site 2b Site 2c Site 3 Site 4 Site 5 J F J F J F J F J F J F J F COLLEMBOLA 2 BLATTODEA Blattellidae 1 1 1 1 MANTODEA Mantidae 1 1 1 ORTHOPTERA Acrididae 1 2 1 2 1 Gryllidae 2 1 Pyrgomorphidae 4 Tettigoniidae 1 HEMIPTERA Aleyrodidae 1 Aphididae Berytidae 1 2 Cicadellidae 4 13 38 8 13 15 12 3 3 14 10 5 Coccoidea 1 1 1 Colobathristidae 2 2 Coreidae 1 Fulgoroidea 1 1 1 3 2 2 2 2 4 8 Lygaeidae 1 1 Miridae 1 12 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 Pentatomidae 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 2 Psyllidae 1 Scutelleridae 1 THYSANOPTERA Phlaeothripidae 1 2 Thripidae 1 COLEOPTERA Anisotomidae 1 Anthicidae 1 Apionidae 6 3 2 2 5 3 7 1 1 1 Chrysomelidae 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 Coccinellidae 2 1 2 1 9 5 1 Curculionidae 1 1 1 Elateridae 3 Lathridiidae 1 Silvanidae 1 1 3 4 2 DIPTERA Acalyptrata 2 3 2 1 3 5 2 3 9 10 2 4 Empididae 1 Nematocera 5 3 69 4 68 15 30 8 9 8 14 28 2 21 LEPIDOPTERA moths 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 caterpillars 5 2 1 2 5 1 1 butterflies 1 1 HYMENOPTERA Apidae 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 Braconidae 2 2 Chalcidoidea 3 3 3 2 4 2 2 1 3 2 9 6 3 4 Formicidae 9 2 5 10 8 5 17 8 21 7 10 4 8 7 Proctotrupoid 1 Pompilidae 1 Scelionidae 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 4 ARACHNIDA spiders 33 13 11 15 25 15 27 10 22 19 38 17 16 32 mites 1 3 1 UNKNOWN egg 1 The most abundant pest species were leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), mirids (Hemiptera: Miridae) and plant hoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea), and the high number of nymphs for these groups indicated that they were breeding on sesame. The most common species were Orosius argentatus (Evans), Austroasca viridigrisea (Paoli), Austroagallia torrida (Evans), Balclutha rubrostriata (Melichar) and Nesoclutha pallida