size of some of its victims (which included large 
grasshopper body parts): 
Coripera deplanata Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae 
12mm 
Saragus costatus Tenebrionidae: Heleini pie dish 
beetle 15 mm 
Cheiroplatys latipes Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae 
22 mm 
Colpochila obesa Scarabeidae: Melolonthinae 
17mm 
Spiders 
Ambicodamus sororius Nicodamidae 6mm 
Storena sp. Zodariidae 
Delena cancerides Sparassidae huntsman (female) 
23mm 
Dysdera crocata Dysderidae introduced predator 
of wood slaters for which it has elongated 
chelicerae (under a rock in non-native grass near 
the road) 13mm 
Paramatachia tubicola Dictynidae 7mm 
Salticids on rocks by the shore 
Other Invertebrates 
Eurymeloides bicincta Hemiptera: Cicadellidae 
9mm 
Cercophonius squama Scorpionidae: Bothriuridae 
scorpion under rocks 
Chaerocaris paganus Hemiptera jewel bug under 
rotting logs 
Chaetophyes compacta Hemiptera: Machaerotidae 
calcareous tubes on branches of eucalypts 
Excursion photos can be seen at http://www.tasfieldnats.org.au/ExcnPhotos/ExcnPhotos.htm . 
Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club 
BULLETIN 332 
Oct 2008 p9 
