Sighting 4426044
A recently described pygmy cricket at Cook, ACT
Identification history
| Calperum ottei | 2 Mar 2022 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Calperum ottei | 27 Feb 2022 | CathB |
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User's notes
Four different individuals shown (the first two together in the third image), all female.
5 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
2 Mar 2022
Aranda Bushland is still the only recorded location of this cricket on CNM and I presume elsewhere
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
2 Mar 2022
Thanks Roger - so only known location in the Canberra Nature Map region?
CathB
wrote:
3 Mar 2022
I saw another four nearby a couple of days later. All three of the ones I managed to photograph were female. Too small and too quick to tell by eye. They are certainly common enough in this area.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.073253-35.266293
- Altitude 602.5m
- Maps Mount Painter
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 26 Feb 2022 12:27 PM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Calperum ottei Scientific name
- A recently described pygmy cricket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- 512.4m to 951m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
