Phaulacridium vittatum

Wingless Grasshopper

Family Acrididae. A common southern Australian species that has two distinct forms for wing length, a brachypterous (short-winged) form and a macropterous (fully winged) form; the short-winged form, which has given rise to the misleading common name of 'Wingless Grasshopper', consititutes 80-90% of the population. Additionally, there are several colour forms.

This species can erupt in plague numbers in certain years and defoliate crop and pasture plants, and even shrubs and small trees.

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Species information

• Phaulacridium vittatum Scientific name
• Wingless Grasshopper Common name
• Not Sensitive
• Local Native
• Non-Invasive
• 0m to 1694.2m Recorded at altitude
• External link More information

Location information

• Maps

  ANBG Aranda Bushland Bango Nature Reserve Bendora Reservoir Bimberi Nature Reserve Black Mountain Blue Gum Point to Attunga Bay Bluetts Block Area Brindabella National Park Bruce Ridge Corin Reservoir Cotter Reserve Denman Prospect 2 Estate Deferred Area (Block 12) Dryandra St Woodland Dunlop Grasslands Emu Creek Farrer Ridge Fowles St. Woodland, Weston Gibraltar Pines Ginninderry Conservation Corridor Googong Foreshore Goorooyarroo Hughes Grassy Woodland Illilanga & Baroona Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby Kosciuszko National Park Kowen Escarpment Lake Burley Griffin West Lower Cotter Catchment Molonglo Gorge Mount Ainslie Mount Majura Mount Painter Mount Taylor Namadgi National Park Piney Ridge Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council Red Hill Nature Reserve Rugosa at Yass River Tharwa Bridge Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Tuggeranong Hill West Belconnen Pond Western Edge Area Woodstock Nature Reserve

• Points of interest

  GG154 GG182 GG94 GG95 GG96 Point 26

• Places

  Acton, ACT Ainslie, ACT Aranda, ACT Bango, NSW Belconnen, ACT Bimberi, NSW Bookham, NSW Booth, ACT Brindabella, ACT Bruce, ACT Burra, NSW Carwoola, NSW Conder, ACT Cook, ACT Coree, ACT Cotter River, ACT Crooked Corner, NSW Deakin, ACT Downer, ACT Dunlop, ACT Evatt, ACT Fadden, ACT Farrer, ACT Flynn, ACT Forde, ACT Geehi, NSW Googong, NSW Hackett, ACT Higgins, ACT Holt, ACT Hughes, ACT Hume, ACT Isaacs, ACT Jagungal Wilderness, NSW Jerrabomberra, ACT Kaleen, ACT Kambah, ACT Kowen, ACT Macarthur, ACT Macgregor, ACT Majura, ACT McKellar, ACT Michelago, NSW Molonglo Valley, ACT Monash, ACT Mount Clear, ACT Murrumbateman, NSW Numeralla, NSW Oallen, NSW O'Connor, ACT Paddys River, ACT Pearce, ACT Pialligo, ACT Pilot Wilderness, NSW Queanbeyan East, NSW Reid, ACT Rendezvous Creek, ACT Stromlo, ACT Tennent, ACT Tharwa, ACT Theodore, ACT Tuggeranong DC, ACT Uriarra, NSW Wamboin, NSW Watson, ACT Weston, ACT Yaouk, NSW Yarralumla, ACT Yarrangobilly, NSW Yass River, NSW

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