Sighting 4580189
Australian Plague Locust at Paruna, SA
Identification history
| Chortoicetes terminifera | 14 Mar 2025 | RogerF | ||
| Chortoicetes terminifera | 14 Mar 2025 | WendyEM | ||
| Unverified | 11 Jul 2024 | WendyEM |
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User's notes
large numbers of locusts/grasshoppers on the wing. When we got to destination found this was a way to find if European Wasps are about. They were soon furiously harvesting the bodies from the car.
11 comments
clarehoneydove
wrote:
14 Mar 2025
Well I am pretty disappointed that roger can't ID this based on the splat
WendyEM
wrote:
14 Mar 2025
MAYBE ?? the wing pattern on these added crops hint at an ID? Sorry it was a poor quality (low pixel count) camera. My failure to adequately document the grasshoppers surprises me. I think, in ignorance, I thought back then only 1 type of grasshopper formed plagues.
RogerF
wrote:
14 Mar 2025
From the internet. "In 2010, South Australia experienced its worst locust plague in 40 years, with the Australian Plague Locust Commission (APLC) reporting widespread infestations and significant crop damage, particularly in the Riverland and Murray Mallee regions. "
So it was Chortoicetes terminifera rather than Austroicetes cruciata
So it was Chortoicetes terminifera rather than Austroicetes cruciata
Location information
- Coordinates 140.781166-34.779027
- Places Paruna, SA
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 26 Apr 2010 02:31 PM Recorded on
- WendyEM Recorded by
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Collections
WendyEM NatureMapr Chortoicetes terminifera Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Deceased Animal health
Species information
- Chortoicetes terminifera Scientific name
- Australian Plague Locust Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1610m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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