Cooraboorama canberrae
2 Canberra Raspy Cricket at Pialligo, ACT
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| Cooraboorama canberrae | RogerF | 30 Jan 2023 | |
| Arrolla longicauda | RogerF | 30 Jan 2023 | |
| Arrolla longicauda | millsse | 30 Jan 2023 |
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Sighted and photographed at Canberra Airport
2 comments
30 Jan 2023
I think this is Cooraboorama canberrae. There is a thriving population of that species at the airport in association with Grassland Earless Dragon and I have collected and/or relocated many of them. Many turn up every year in the tube shelters used for monitoring earless dragons at Majura, Canberra Airport, Jerrabomberra East and West grassland reserves, Queanbeyan nature reserve etc as they are grassland specialists. The furthest afield I have seen Cc is near Bungendore (Turallo Nature Reserve). Dave Rentz wouldn’t commit to an identification of the Bungendore specimen from a nymph so I raised it to adulthood under his instruction and it should be in ANIC, along with some of my other collections I think.
I don’t have immediate access to the papers describing the distinguishing characters of the various genera and species of Gryllacridids, but a quick check online suggests that the type specimen of Arrolla longicauda was collected at 1200 metres ASL?
I don’t have immediate access to the papers describing the distinguishing characters of the various genera and species of Gryllacridids, but a quick check online suggests that the type specimen of Arrolla longicauda was collected at 1200 metres ASL?
30 Jan 2023
I debated whether it was Cooraboorama or an Arolla. As you are more familiar with the former than myself I stand corrected.
Location information
- Places Pialligo, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- millsse Recorded by
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Collections
- ACT Most Wanted! millsse Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Cooraboorama canberrae Crickets (Orthoptera, several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Species information
- Cooraboorama canberrae Scientific name
- Canberra Raspy Cricket Common name
- Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 615.23m Recorded at altitude
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