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===Insects=== There are several endemic or range-restricted insect species found in Eungella National Park. A study of the order [[Diptera]] (flies) in seven rainforest locations found that the long-isolated, high elevation, rain-forested massif at Eungella were a unique entity in the analyses, characterized by high numbers of Chironomidae, Psychodidae, Tipulidae and Empididae.<ref name=Kitching /> Flies in the genus ''Cyamops'' including; ''C. pectinatus, C. dayi, C. delta'' and ''C. pectiatus'' have been collected in damp areas in the park including near streams, waterfalls and marshes.<ref>Khoo, K. C. 1984. The Australian species of Cyamops Melander (Diptera: Periscelididae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32:527-536.</ref> The fly species Drosophila birchii is restricted to patches of warm, wet tropical rainforest between New Guinea and Eungella.<ref>Kelemen, L., and C. Moritz. 1999. Comparative phylogeography of a sibling pair of rainforest Drosophila species (Drosophila serrata and D. birchii). Evolution 53:1306-1311.</ref> The [[Tettigoniidae|katydid]] ''[[Phricta]] zwicka'' has been collected from Eungella National Park.<ref>Rentz, D. C., Y. N. Su, and N. Ueshima. 2005. Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae. The genus ''Phricta'' Redtenbacher (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Pseudophyllinae; Phrictini). Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 131:131-158.</ref> The Megalopteran ''Protochauliodes eungella'' is known only from the Eungella area.<ref>Theischinger, G. 1999. Inventory of Australian Megaloptera larvae and resulting implications for the classification of the group (Insecta: Neuropterida). Neue Folge 138:85-100.</ref> Two new species from the order Odonata were collected in the Eungella area; ''Austroaeschna christine'' and ''A. eungella''.<ref>Theischinger, G. 1993. Two new species of ''Austroaeschna'' SELYS from Queensland, Australia (Odonata: Aeshnidae: Brachytroninae). Linzer Biology 25:805-819.</ref> A survey of butterflies in the park undertaken in 1993 recorded 37 species with an additional 15 species known from museum and private records.<ref>Dunn, K. 2006. Butterfly checklist for five National Parks in eastern Australia: compiled unpublished reports sent to state conservation services during the 1990s. Caloderma 6:10-28.</ref>
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