FF The Arnhem Land plateau is an enormous sandstone tableland, roughly the size of Switzerland. This is country that has been home to Indigenous people for tens of thousands of years and the rock paintings found throughout the plateau are thought to represent the longest continuous record of human culture anywhere in the world.
The plateau of western Arnhem Land is the most significant region in the NT for biodiversity. It contains far more of the NT’s endemic species than anywhere else (including at least 160 plant species found nowhere else; Woinarski et al. 2006), and many plants and animals of outstanding biogeographic and scientific interest. It harbours an unusually high number (at least 32) of threatened species, many of which are being detrimentally affected by the fire regimes currently prevailing in the region. The Arnhem Land plateau also supports a high proportion of the NT’s rainforest estate, including almost all of the distinctive rainforest associations dominated by the endemic tree Allosyncarpia ternata. The rugged nature of this bioregion affords its biota some protection from threatening processes that have affected biodiversity elsewhere.
FF Anomis involuta
Sandstone Country
FF
The plateau of western Arnhem Land is the most significant region in the NT for biodiversity. It contains far more of the NT’s endemic species than anywhere else (including at least 160 plant species found nowhere else; Woinarski et al. 2006), and many plants and animals of outstanding biogeographic and scientific interest. It harbours an unusually high number (at least 32) of threatened species, many of which are being detrimentally affected by the fire regimes currently prevailing in the region. The Arnhem Land plateau also supports a high proportion of the NT’s rainforest estate, including almost all of the distinctive rainforest associations dominated by the endemic tree Allosyncarpia ternata. The rugged nature of this bioregion affords its biota some protection from threatening processes that have affected biodiversity elsewhere.
FF Anomis involuta
Sandstone Country
FF
FF Australian Woolly Bears ANTHELIDAE sp
Sandstone Country FF
FFBrolga Grus rubicundus
Sandstone Country
FF
FFCentranthera cochinchinensis
Sandstone Country
FF
FFCicadas Pauropsalta melanopygia
Sandstone Country
FF
FFCricket GRYLLIDAE sp.
Sandstone Country
FF
FFFour o clock Moth Dysphania numana larvae 2nd Instar
Sandstone Country
FF
FFGlossy Shield Bug - Cermatulus nasalis 3rd instar
Sandstone Country
FF
FFGreen Jewel Bug Lampromicra senator
Sandstone Country
FF
FFGrevillea heliosperma
Sandstone Country
FF
FFJumping Spider Arasia sp.
Sandstone Country
FF
FFLady Bug Orcus sp. Mating
Sandstone Country
FF
FFLithomyrtus densifolia
Sandstone Country
FF
FFLithomyrtus densifolia
Sandstone Country
FF
FFNoctuoidea sp.
Sandstone Country
FF
FFNotodontidae Possible Cerura multipunctata
Thanks to Don Herbison-Evans
for Help With Identification
Sandstone Country
FF
FFNotodontidae Possible Cerura multipunctata
Thanks to Don Herbison-Evans
for Help With Identification
Sandstone Country
FF
FFPale-orange Darter Telicota colon
Sandstone Country
FF
FFPredatory Stink Bug - Asopinae sp.
Sandstone Country
FF
FFPurple Jungle Plant Hypoestes floribunda
Sandstone Country
FF
FFRock Fig Ficus platypoda
Sandstone Country
FF
FFSolanum clarkiae
Sandstone Country
FF
FFSolanum echinatum
Sandstone Country
FF
FFSowerbaea alliacea
Sandstone Country
FF
FFSt Andrew's Cross Spider Argiope Keyserlingi
Sandstone Country
FF
FFTiger Moth Argina astrea
Sandstone Country
FF
FF Sandstone Country
FF
FFTiger Moth Argina astrea Larva
Sandstone Country
FF
FFTrichosanthes cucumerina
Sandstone Country
FF
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