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inski
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Help with identification and a critter!
#8395417 - 05/13/08 03:03 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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This mushroom was found in native New Zealand bush growing under Podocarpus totara and Leptospermum scoparium.
 Pileus-50mm diameter. Obtusely conic to broadly umbonate, off white adorned with fine chocolate brown fibrils. Lamellae-Attachment free. White with rough margins. Spacing close to subdistant. Stipe-45mm long by 10mm thick enlarged at the base with remnants of a universal veil, no evidence of a partial veil. White, finely fibrillose or floccose. Spores-White in deposit. Some type of Amanita species? I thought I'd throw this strange critter in for fun, found under a seed raising tray!
 It was quite small so the image isn't that clearly defined but I'm pretty sure it's some kind of whip scorpion although I was unaware there were any species in New Zealand, maybe there's an entomologist out there who can shed some light on this strange arachnid! inski...
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haunted


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Re: Help with identification and a critter! [Re: inski]
#8395433 - 05/13/08 03:19 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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nice critter! looks like a harvestman
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CureCat
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Re: Help with identification and a critter! [Re: inski]
#8395435 - 05/13/08 03:22 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Heyas Inski, why does it look like you took a razor blade to the cap margin and trimmed the edge off????
Was there a distinct volva at the base of the stipe, or was it just enlarged? certainly looks like an Amanita right off hand.
As for the critter. From my searching about the web, I've only read that scorpions are completely absent from NZ, and that uropygid (whip scorpion / vinegaroon) are nowhere in Australia. That's all I got right now! I'm tired!
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inski
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Re: Help with identification and a critter! [Re: CureCat]
#8395448 - 05/13/08 03:38 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hey Curecat, It does look like I did that but I didn't, I noticed it but was unsure how to describe it, there is a distinct volva but it's completely attached to the stipe, there is a margin separating it from the stipe! I ruled out Volvariella species due to the white spore print. As for the critter, at first I thought it was a harvestman like haunted said but I'm pretty sure it's some type of whip scorpion, the only thing I'm positive about is that it's an arachnid! inski..
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lqdtrance
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Re: Help with identification and a critter! [Re: inski]
#8395488 - 05/13/08 04:24 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Either way that insect looks pretty cool. I personally dont like insects. They give me the creeps.
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Re: Help with identification and a critter! [Re: inski]
#8396056 - 05/13/08 10:13 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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CureCat
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Re: Help with identification and a critter! [Re: Workman]
#8396401 - 05/13/08 11:51 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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lgdtrance, it is not an insect, it's an arachnid.
Nice job Workman, that's definitely it.
Still not sure about that Amanita.
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Re: Help with identification and a critter! [Re: CureCat]
#8396589 - 05/13/08 12:45 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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That bug is insane mate, it looks like my missus when you flip the Pict upside down.
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Re: Help with identification and a critter! [Re: inski]
#8396808 - 05/13/08 01:43 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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That is a CRAZY harvestman!!!!! they look nothing like that over here, the North American harvestman's pedipalps are not nearly as prominent. your harvestman looks more like an amblypigid or vinagroon than it does a NA harvestman. Awesome!
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