Sighting 4190807
Praxibulus sp. (genus)
1 A grasshopper at Rendezvous Creek, ACT
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| Praxibulus sp. (genus) | RogerF | 28 Jan 2019 | |
| Unverified | JohnBundock | 28 Jan 2019 |
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1 comment
29 Jan 2019
It looks as though this grasshopper is infected with an entomofungus that induces it to climb to the top of a grass stem to die followed by production and release of spores
Location information
- Coordinates 148.995615-35.729710
- Altitude 897.0m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Rendezvous Creek, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 28 Jan 2019 11:14 AM Recorded on
- JohnBundock Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- JohnBundock Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Praxibulus sp. (genus) Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Species information
- Praxibulus sp. (genus) Scientific name
- A grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1591.77m Recorded at altitude
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Record quality
Quality score
6 / 7
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