Sighting 4388583
Keyacris scurra
5 Key's Matchstick Grasshopper at Kambah, ACT
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| Keyacris scurra | RogerF | 15 Aug 2021 | |
| Keyacris scurra | HelenCross | 15 Aug 2021 | |
| Unverified | HelenCross | 15 Aug 2021 |
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Significant sighting
MichaelMulvaney noted:
16 Aug 2021
Key's Matchstick is listed as a nationally threatened species. McQuoids Creek -Kambah Pool area is a recording hotspot, but these records are the furthest recorded up McQuoids Creek
User's notes
Keyacris scurra? See sighting 4388584 for more images
5 comments
16 Aug 2021
I have uploaded some photos of the general habitat to sightings 4388653 and 4388652. It's basically thick kangaroo grass with some other herbs and most of the grasshoppers seemed to be centered around the young eucalypt tree. As I walked away from the tree the numbers tapered off. The records are from the Lions Youth Haven side of the fence and I didn't go over into the Reserve to check.
16 Aug 2021
Thanks Helen,
Good to see such detailed habitat pictures, especially the presence of the Chrysopcephalum among the Themeda. We do have some records from the actual Murrumbidgee Corridor reserve not far away Hope to get out there when the lockdown is over.
Good to see such detailed habitat pictures, especially the presence of the Chrysopcephalum among the Themeda. We do have some records from the actual Murrumbidgee Corridor reserve not far away Hope to get out there when the lockdown is over.
16 Aug 2021
Thanks Roger, it's close to my residence so I can keep checking the area during my daily exercise allowance
16 Aug 2021
I was wondering how you got there during lockdown!! Very handy. Keep up the good work.
Another observation worth pursuing, if you have the time, is checking on the different colour morphs of Keyacris. You had a picture of the 'green sides' and the 'grey' but there is also 'all green' and 'brown'.
Another observation worth pursuing, if you have the time, is checking on the different colour morphs of Keyacris. You had a picture of the 'green sides' and the 'grey' but there is also 'all green' and 'brown'.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.021256-35.392151
- Maps Lions Youth Haven - Westwood Farm A.C.T.
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 15 Abundance
- 15 Aug 2021 02:44 PM Recorded on
- HelenCross Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- HelenCross Significant Featured Pinned Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr ACT Most Wanted! ACT threatened species! Keyacris scurra Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Species information
- Keyacris scurra Scientific name
- Key's Matchstick Grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1219m Recorded at altitude
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Record quality
Quality score
7 / 7
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