Sighting 4527041
1 Key's Matchstick Grasshopper at Bungonia, NSW
Identification history
| Keyacris scurra | 14 Nov 2023 | RogerF | ||
| Keyacris scurra | 14 Nov 2023 | LodgeEnviro | ||
| Keyacris scurra | 14 Nov 2023 | LodgeEnviro |
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Significant sighting
User's notes
Suspected immature K. scurra. In remnant native vegetation at Christ Church Bungonia. Possibly a new site for this species? Bungonia cemetery was surveyed on 14/11/2023 with no Keyacris recorded. Last record is 2019. Mowing in wrong season perhaps responsible for decline.
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RogerF
wrote:
14 Nov 2023
Yes there has been a big decline/extinction in many cemeteries due to more rigorous mowing regimes outside the graves areas. Wombat cemetery has gone from estimates of 10,000 in the 60's to zero today. There has been a bit of a fixation on cemeteries derived from the collection sites of White & Key and we are now finding more populations in different habitats oiutside the typical natural temperate grassland
Location information
- Coordinates 149.943039-34.859114
- Altitude 586.9m
- Places Bungonia, NSW
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 14 Nov 2023 11:48 AM Recorded on
- LodgeEnviro Recorded by
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ACT Most Wanted!
Additional information
- Less than 5mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Keyacris scurra Scientific name
- Key's Matchstick Grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1191.65m Recorded at altitude
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