Wildlife (General) Amendment Regulations 2012

Wildlife (General) Amendment Regulations 2012

I, the Administrator in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Nature Conservation Act 2002 .

17 September 2012

P. E. EVANS

Administrator

By His Excellency's Command,

BRIAN WIGHTMAN

Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Wildlife (General) Amendment Regulations 2012 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Principal Regulations

In these regulations, the Wildlife (General) Regulations 2010 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.

4.    Regulation 4A inserted

After regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations , the following regulation is inserted in Part 1:

4A.   Controlled animals

For the purposes of the definition of controlled animal in section 32 of the Act, the animals specified in Schedule 7A are prescribed to be controlled animals.

5.    Schedule 7A inserted

After Schedule 7 to the Principal Regulations , the following Schedule is inserted:

SCHEDULE 7A - Controlled Animals

Regulation 4A

PART 1 - Spiders

Family	Common Name	Species
Family Actinopodidae	Mouse Spider	Missulena spp.
Family Hexathelidae	Tree Funnelweb Spider	Atrax horribillis
	Sydney Funnelweb Spider	Atrax robustus
	Funnelweb Spider	Hadronyche spp.
Family Idiopidae	Tree-stem Trapdoor Spider	Aganippe castellum
	Four-spotted Trapdoor Spider	Aganippe subtristis
	Golden Trapdoor Spider	Arbanitis spp.
	Adelaide Trapdoor Spider	Blakistonia aurea
	Shieldbacked Trapdoor Spider	Idiosoma nigrum
	Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider	Misgolas rapax
	Tube Spider	Misgolas robertsi
Family Lycosidae	Grey Wolf Spider	Dingosa simsoni
	Garden Wolf Spider	Lycosa godeffroyi
	Little Striped Wolf Spider	Venatrix furcillata
Family Sparassidae	Flat Huntsman Spider or Avondale Spider	Delena cancerides
	Sydney Huntsman Spider, Large Huntsman Spider, Giant Huntsman Spider, Grey Huntsman Spider	Holconia immanis
	Badge Huntsman Spider, Shield Huntsman Spider	Neosparassus spp.
	Lichen Huntsman	Pandercetes gracilis
	Giant Huntsman Spider	Typostola barbata
Family Tetragnathidae	Golden Orbweavers	Nephila spp.
Family Theraphosidae	Tarantula	Phlogius spp.
	Coastal Whistling Spider	Selenocosmia crassipes
	Australian Common Whistling Spider	Selenocosmia stirlingi
	Australian Featherleg Spider	Selenotypus plumipes

PART 2 - Scorpions

Class	Common Name	Species
Arachnida	Scorpions	Family Buthidae, all kinds

PART 3 - Stick Insects

Family	Common Name	Species
Family Phasmatidae	Titan Stick Insect	Acrophylla titan
	Wuelfing's Stick Insect	Acrophylla wuelfingi
	Tessellated Stick Insect	Anchiale austrotessulata
	Spurlegged Stick Insect, Spurlegged Phasmatid	Didymuria violescens
	Peppermint Stick Insect, Pandanus Stick Insect	Megacrania batesii
	Ringbarker Phasmatid	Podacanthus wilkinsoni
	Children's Stick Insect	Tropidoderus childrenii

PART 4 - Cockroaches

Family	Common Name	Species
Family Blaberidae	Burrowing Cockroach	Geoscapheus dilatatus
	Friedman's Bark Cockroach	Laxta friedmani
	Australian Wood Cockroach	Panesthia australis
	Giant Burrowing Cockroach, Giant Knobby Cockroach	Parapanesthia gigantea
	Surinam Cockroach	Pycnoscelus surinamensis

PART 5 - Centipedes

Class	Common Name	Species
Chilopoda	Centipedes	Family Scolopendridae, all kinds

PART 6 - Millipedes

Class	Common Name	Order
Class Diplopoda	Pill Millipedes	Order Sphaerotheriida, all kinds
	Spirobolid Millipedes	Order Spirobolida, all kinds
	Polydesmid Millipedes	Order Polydesmida, all kinds

PART 7 - Beetles

Family or Order	Common Name	Species
Family Curculionidae	Botany Bay Weevil	Chrysolopus spectabilis
Order Coleoptera	Longicorn Beetle	Family Cerambycidae, all kinds
	Stag Beetle	Family Lucanidae, all kinds
	Bess Beetle, Passalid Beetle	Family Passalidae, all kinds
Order Hemiptera	Assassin Bug	Family Reduviidae, all kinds

PART 8 - Praying Mantis

Family	Common Name	Species
Family Mantidae	Large Brown Mantid	Archimantis spp.
	Garden Mantid, Green Mantid, Slender Green Mantid	Orthodera spp.

PART 9 - Crickets

Family	Common Name	Species
Family Stenopelmatidae	King Cricket	Australostoma spp.
Family Tettigoniidae	Spotted Katydid, Spotted Predatory Katydid	Ephippitytha trigintiduoguttata
	Rainforest Cricket, Katydid	Phricta spp.

PART 10 - Snails

Family	Common Name	Species
Family Caryodidae	Giant Panda Snail	Hedleyella falconeri
Family Camaenidae	Rainforest Snail	Hadra webbi
	Fraser's Rainforest Snail	Sphaerospira fraseri
	Mitchell's Rainforest Snail, Rainforest Snail	Thersites spp.
Family Ampullariidae	Ramshorn Snail	Bulinus spp.
	Giant Ramshorn Snail	Marisa cornuarietis
	Apple Snail	Pila spp.
	Apple Snail	Pomacea spp.

PART 11 - Velvet Worms

Class	Common Name	Species
Class Onychophorida	Velvet Worm	Family Peripatopsidae, all kinds

PART 12 - Slugs

Family	Common Name	Species
Family Athoracophoridae	Red Triangle Slug	Triboniophorus graeffei

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 26 September 2012

These regulations are administered in the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations amend the Wildlife (General) Regulations 2010 by prescribing certain animals as controlled animals for the purposes of the Nature Conservation Act 2002 .