Sighting 4400803
1 Bark-mimicking Grasshopper at Booth, ACT
Identification history
| Coryphistes ruricola | 20 Oct 2021 | RogerF | ||
| Unidentified | 20 Oct 2021 | TimL |
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User's notes
In the final image (poor quality: taken in a hurry) a foraging Spider ant walked over the Grasshopper's antennae. The ant appeared not to have seen the Grasshopper, and the Grasshopper remained motionless. Thanks to Barbara Leach for the initial sighting.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.986308-35.796578
- Altitude 1411.6m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Booth, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 17 Oct 2021 11:35 AM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
Additional information
- Spider ant, Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus. Associated Insect
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Coryphistes ruricola Scientific name
- Bark-mimicking Grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1437.48m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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