Sighting 4652950
Common Peakesia Grasshopper at Gundaroo, NSW
Identification history
| Peakesia hospita | 18 Mar 2025 | clarehoneydove | ||
| Peakesia hospita | 17 Mar 2025 | clarehoneydove | ||
| Unidentified | 13 Mar 2025 | ConBoekel |
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User's notes
Only one poor image before it hopped away...
4 comments
RogerF
wrote:
18 Mar 2025
Used to be very common in the 70's. Now not so often seen. We know so little about long term trends in insect abundance and their causes although climate and its effects on vegetation is probably the main driver.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.276353-35.026683
- Altitude 603.9m
- Maps Gundaroo Common
- Places Gundaroo, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 16 Feb 2025 12:38 PM Recorded on
- ConBoekel Recorded by
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Collections
ConBoekel NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Latest Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Peakesia hospita Scientific name
- Common Peakesia Grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 757.1m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
