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Drhoz
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Australian Insect Fanatic (and BritSF fan and Furry)
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February 17, 2026 at 10:29 AM
First formally described as Astroloma acervatum in 2013 by Australian botanists Michael Clyde Hislop and Annette Jane Gratton Wilson. The specific epithet means “mounded” or “heaped”.

Foxes Lair, Narrogin.
February 17, 2026 at 10:23 AM
It grows in woods and shrubland in a variety of soils over laterite and granite from Eneabba to Wagin, on the Darling Range and the nearby coastal plain.

Lol Gray, nr. Narrogin.
February 17, 2026 at 10:22 AM
’celastrifolia’ means ’Celastrus-leaved’, a completely unrelated plant.

Grows in gravelly laterite and granite soils in various ecoregions of the SW.

Lol Gray, nr. Narrogin, WA
February 17, 2026 at 10:19 AM
A shrub, up to 50cm, growing on laterite in surpisingly patchy distribution in parts of SW Australia. It’s not as though laterite is rare over here. Just look at the large boulder behind the plant.

Lol Gray, nr. Narrogin.
February 17, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Otherwise, i don’t have much to say about it.

Foxes Lair, Narrogin - indeed, growing over laterite.
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 AM
I thought they'd wiped themselves out. Rather more powerful then their classmates too
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Probably one of the factors in why I got so few insect species on the Jan trip - the weather was very odd
February 15, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Isopeda is found in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and the Philippines, and was first circumscribed by German arachnologist and entomologist Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.

Dryandra Woodlands NP, Western Australia
February 15, 2026 at 12:05 AM
The antennae of the male have very long, fine, nearly invisible pectination pairs (quad-pectinate) per segment.

Dryandra Woodlands NP
February 15, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The genus is named after the stoic philosopher, Panaetius of Rhodes, but I don’t know why - possibly because it tolerates a wide range of soils and conditions?

Endemic to the SW.

Yilliminning Rock, E. of Narrogin
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
However, in 1867 George Bentham moved it to Podolepsis, and some authorities consider that the current ID. But in 2021 it got moved back to Panaetia, after Australian botanist Jeffrey Jeanes, and that’s the name the WA Herbarium is sticking with.
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The Climacteridae family is found in Australia and Papua, but despite resembling the Certhiid treecreepers of the Northern Hemisphere, are not closely related.

Yilliminning Rock, E. of Narrogin, Western Australia
February 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Australasian treecreepers nest in tree hollows, and can be territorial, but some species recruit up to three helpers - usually older male offspring - to help construct the nest, feed the incubating female, and rear their younger siblings.
February 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM