Sighting 4480160
3 A heath matchstick grasshopper at QPRC LGA
Identification history
| Heide sp. (genus) | 22 Dec 2023 | RogerF | ||
| Keyacris scurra | 10 Apr 2023 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Keyacris scurra | 22 Mar 2023 | NedJohnston |
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Significant sighting
MichaelMulvaney noted:
10 Apr 2023
A very interesting sighting in an isolated summit grassland surrounded by forest
5 comments
NedJohnston
wrote:
22 Mar 2023
@RogerF This is the correct location for the keyacris. The last one used the wrong gps and came up on South Coast Nature Map so I didn't realise until now. It was in the heath on top of Mt Budawang (so still pretty coastal).
RogerF
wrote:
23 Mar 2023
Nevertheless a very interesting sighting in an isolated summit graasland surrounded by foresT
RogerF
wrote:
10 Apr 2023
Keyacris can persist in very small areas of suitable habitat down to a few hectares. Was it here at a drier time when heathland/grassland was more extensive i.e. during the last ice age and then was cut-off by the expanding forest. Any suggestions?
RogerF
wrote:
22 Dec 2023
I visited Mt Budawang today (22.12) with Rob Armstrong DPE. We flushed and photographed 3 specimens of Heide in the short (mown) grassy heath surrounding the fire tower. I believe 4480160 is a Heide sp. The apparently low number of antennae segments visible is because the base of the antenna is hidden by the vertex.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.995474-35.479792
- Places Budawang, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 12 Mar 2023 01:15 PM Recorded on
- NedJohnston Recorded by
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Collections
Significant Insects Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Grasshoppers (several families) NedJohnston Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Heide sp. (genus) Scientific name
- A heath matchstick grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 760.5m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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