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Green planthopper - Siphanta acuta
Added: 05 Oct 2017
Updated: 23 Jul 2018
This adventive plant hopper from Australia was first reported in New Zealand by Kirkaldy in 1909. It is now found in the North Island and parts of the South Island. It occurs on its herbaceous, shrub and tree host plants...
Planthopper parasitoid - Dryinus koebelei
Added: 27 Sep 2017
Updated: 16 Oct 2017
In New Zealand this adventive wasp is an ectoparasitoid of two species of Australian plant hoppers in the family Flatidae. The wasp larva is usually attached under one of the planthopper nymph’s wing buds. Probably throu...
Grey planthopper - Anzora unicolor
Added: 09 Oct 2017
Updated: 08 Aug 2018
This adventive plant hopper from Australia is found in the North Island and the northern half of the South Island of New Zealand. It occurs on its herbaceous and shrub host plants in city gardens and parks as well as nat...
Steelblue ladybird - Halmus chalybeus
Added: 10 Dec 2012
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird from Australia was first released in New Zealand in 1899. It is now the most common ladybird in Auckland, widespread in the North Island and present in the North of the South Island. It is found o...
Passion vine hopper - Scolypopa australis
Added: 19 Oct 2017
Updated: 15 Oct 2018
This adventive plant hopper from Australia has been in Zealand since before 1880 and is now widespread in lowland (below 500 m) areas of the North Island and in Nelson and Marlborough in the South Island. It occurs on it...
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