Keyacris scurra

3 Key's Matchstick Grasshopper at Captains Flat, NSW

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Identification history

	Keyacris scurra	6 Aug 2025	RogerF
	Keyacris scurra	6 Aug 2025	Csteele4

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Significant sighting

RogerF noted:

6 Aug 2025

Threatened spp

User's notes

I think this one is a male? Got photos of one but lots more hopping around too quickly for my camera skills. Shale and rhyolite hillside, Poa labillardierei, blackberry, Plantago lanceolata Euca bridgesiana, Cassinia aculeata, Microlaena stipioides.

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Location information

Places Captains Flat, NSW

Sighting information

4 - 15 Abundance
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Csteele4 NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Keyacris scurra Significant ACT Most Wanted! ACT threatened species NSW Government Priority Species Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects

Additional information

12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Keyacris scurra Scientific name
Key's Matchstick Grasshopper Common name
Not Sensitive
Endangered *
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1219m Recorded at altitude
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