Sighting 4393660
9 Key's Matchstick Grasshopper at Conder, ACT
Identification history
| Keyacris scurra | 19 Sep 2021 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Keyacris scurra | 18 Sep 2021 | MichaelBedingfield |
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Significant sighting
MichaelBedingfield noted:
19 Sep 2021
An important confirmation that the species is surviving at this location, 21 years after it was last recorded.
User's notes
In Tuggeranong Hill Reserve, in the woodland near the Conder Ponds.
6 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
18 Sep 2021
Hi Roger. Confirming that the population recorded at Tuggeranong Hill by Kim Pullen in 1999/2000 is still present. I saw only one specimen. Is it a female as I suspect?
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
19 Sep 2021
Thanks Roger. Stackhousia monogyna. It was among some grass & I got some poor photos of it there. Initially it was nervous & tried to get away from me. It then climbed up the plant where it perched & was unafraid of my company, posing graciously. It was not eating the Stackhousia monogyna.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.106780-35.461011
- Altitude 675.3m
- Maps Tuggeranong Hill
- Places Conder, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 17 Sep 2021 03:42 PM Recorded on
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
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Collections
Michaelb Bedingfield's Flagged sightings Keyacris scurra Significant Featured Insects Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) MichaelBedingfield Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr ACT Most Wanted! ACT threatened species
Additional information
- Stackhousia monogyna Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Female Gender
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
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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