Biodiversity of the Central Coast
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Land Invertebrates
Slugs and snails
Pacific banana slug
(
Ariolimax columbianus
)
Beaded lancetooth
(
Ancotrema sportella
)
Northwest hesperian
(
Vespericola columbianus
)
Yellow-bordered taildropper
(
Prophysaon foliolatum
)
Spiders
Slender crab spider
(
Tibellus oblongus
)
Goldenrod crab spider
(
Misumena vatia
)
Insects
Huckleberry grasshopper
(
Melanoplus fasciatus
)
Camel Cricket
(
Pristoceuthophilus celatus
)
Reakirt's copper
(
Lycaena mariposa
)
Damselfly
(
Enallagma
spp.)
Red cross shield bug
(
Elasmostethus cruciatus
)
Stink bug
(possibly
Banasa dimidata
)
Thick-legged hoverfly
(
Syritta pipiens
)
Melanostoma mellinum
Sweat bee
(
Halictus rubicundus
)
Fuzzy-horned bumble bee
(
Bombus mixtus
)
Cutworm moth
(
Feralia comstocki)
Spotted tussock moth
(
Lophocampa maculata
)
Fireweed clearwing moss
(
Albuna pyramidalis
)
Giant water bug
(
Lethocerus americanus
)
Plectrura spinicauda
Pictured rove beetle
(
Thinopinus pictus
)
Pterostichus lama
Cychrus tuberculatus
Scolopocryptops spinicaudus