Bioeconomy Science Institute

Citizen Science and Environmental DNA Reveals Site of an Invasive Paropsisterna beata (Newman) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Population in New Zealand

More than a decade after being declared eradicated, a population of the Australian blessed leaf beetle Paropsisterna beata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) was located in New Zealand in 2026. The pest has been found and photographed three times by citizen scientists approximately 25 k...

Biological Flora of New Zealand 17: Kunzea ericoides (Myrtaceae), Kānuka

This review summarises the taxonomic status, morphology, physiology, ecology, plant communities, mycological, invertebrate and vertebrate interactions and human use of the New Zealand endemic tree Kunzea ericoides (A. Rich.) Joy Thomps. (kānuka) (Myrtaceae). While first treated a...

A Critique of the Taxonomy of Subtribe Celmisiinae (Asteraceae: Tribe Astereae) With New Combinations in Pleurophyllum Hook.f. sens. lat. and Shawia hesperia (Heenan & Molloy) Heenan comb. nov.

This review is of the recently revised circumscriptions of the Pleurophyllum Hook.f. group and Shawia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. of subtribe Celmisiinae, both centred in New Zealand. Recognition of Shawia is supported, and phylogenetic data recover seven well‐supported subclades treat...