Sighting 3387614
Gastrimargus musicus
Yellow-winged Locust or Grasshopper at Cotter River, ACT
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| Gastrimargus musicus | RogerF | 23 Jul 2018 | |
| Gastrimargus musicus | MichaelMulvaney | 25 May 2018 | |
| Unverified | JudithRoach | 21 Dec 2017 |
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User's notes
About 5 or 6mm I think. It was tiny. I think it might have been displaying. There was a lot of movement while stopped in the one place, on top of a piece of cut timber at the shelter. Alternatively maybe it was casting it's old exo-skeleton Very strange looking bug I think.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.765472-35.490749
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Dec 2017 12:29 PM Recorded on
- JudithRoach Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
- JudithRoach Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Gastrimargus musicus Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Species information
- Gastrimargus musicus Scientific name
- Yellow-winged Locust or Grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1544.5m Recorded at altitude
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Record quality
Quality score
6 / 7
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