Sighting 4421762
Cirphula pyrrhocnemis
1 Variable Cirphula at Tianjara, NSW
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| Cirphula pyrrhocnemis | RogerF | 31 Jan 2022 | |
| Acrididae sp. (family) | AnneG1 | 31 Jan 2022 |
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Looked dead
2 comments
31 Jan 2022
Hello AnnG1, The grasshopper has been killed by a entomophagous fungus, such as Metarhizium. The cunning fungus induces the grasshopper to climb up a stem and die from where its spores can easily spread and infect other grasshoppers. Page 170 my book.
31 Jan 2022
Thanks RogerF. I was curious as to why it died in that particular position but I hadn’t thought of a fungus as being the cause. Very interesting.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.333467-35.107358
- Altitude 494.9m
- Places Tianjara, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 24 Jan 2022 11:51 AM Recorded on
- AnneG1 Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Collections
- AnneG1 South Coast NatureMapr Cirphula pyrrhocnemis Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Species information
- Cirphula pyrrhocnemis Scientific name
- Variable Cirphula Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1421.3m Recorded at altitude
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Record quality
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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