Percassa rugifrons

2 Mountain Grasshopper at Cotter River, ACT

Percassa rugifrons at Cotter River, ACT - 12 Feb 2018
Percassa rugifrons at Cotter River, ACT - 12 Feb 2018
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Identification history

Percassa rugifrons 19 Feb 2018 MichaelMulvaney
Percassa rugifrons 18 Feb 2018 RogerF
Unidentified 17 Feb 2018 HarveyPerkins

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The female would have been about 50 mm in length, the male only about 25-30 mm.

3 comments

RogerF wrote:
   19 Feb 2018
This is a common grasshopper of montane areas, living in shrubbery. There is no need to suppress location. I'm surprised it has not been recorded before, See page 153 my book..
AaronClausen wrote:
   19 Feb 2018
Hi RogerF, this shouldn't be suppressed for you. Can you see the coordinates listed over on the right hand side of page? But I did notice Google is having some image issues with missing images and blurry images at certain zoom levels.
RogerF wrote:
   19 Feb 2018
Aaron,
Yes the coordinates are listed below the blank image, but the line below, headed location, says location surpressed. So I supposed this was due to an alleged rarity of this grasshopper.

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  • 12 Feb 2018 09:35 AM Recorded on
  • HarveyPerkins Recorded by

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  • Mixed Gender

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