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Insects visiting flowering trees of Syzygium floribundum, Syzygium smithii and Tristaniopsis laurina (Myrtaceae) were recorded in lowland subtropical rainforest communities in the Manning Valley, mid-north coast of New South Wales. These species are visited by a taxonomically broad assemblage of insects, many of which are known to frequent other rainforest- and open forest-flowering plant species. Consequently there is likely to be a regional pool of potential pollinators found throughout the range of each plant.
The threatened Australian endemic rainforest tree Rhodomyrtus psidioides (Myrtaceae) is visited and pollinated by a taxonomically diverse assemblage of mainly small, ecologically unspecialised, insects. Flower structure suggests that it may also be adapted for wind-pollination. However, the recent (2010) invasion by the aggressive fungal pathogen Myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) has resulted in the local extinction of both the floral resource and associated plant-insect relationships. Here I table observed insect visitors to the flowers of Rhodomyrtus psidioides made before the impact of Myrtle rust - no other records appear to have been published.