Sighting 4706587
Perunga ochracea
Perunga grasshopper, Cross-dressing Grasshopper at Whitlam, ACT
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| Perunga ochracea | MichaelMulvaney | 25 Oct 2025 | |
| Perunga ochracea | LukeHush | 24 Oct 2025 |
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User's notes
Nearby (although not exactly in the same place) as last week's observation, sighting 4705007. Could it be the same individual who has since moulted and is now brown or is it more likely that these are two different individuals?
2 comments
25 Oct 2025
Unlikely to have changed colour in one moult.
However I followed up a sighting at Tuggeranong Nr a week after it was reported and photographed one in the same spot over a week later likely same individual
Very sedentary unless disturbed
However I followed up a sighting at Tuggeranong Nr a week after it was reported and photographed one in the same spot over a week later likely same individual
Very sedentary unless disturbed
Location information
- Coordinates 149.023783-35.270437
- Maps Kama Molonglo River Reserve
- Places Whitlam, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 24 Oct 2025 12:30 PM Recorded on
- LukeHush Recorded by
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Collections
- LukeHush NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Perunga ochracea ACT threatened species Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Species information
- Perunga ochracea Scientific name
- Perunga grasshopper, Cross-dressing Grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 816.55m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
Quality score
5 / 7
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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