Sighting 4689612
Keyacris scurra
8 Key's Matchstick Grasshopper at Penrose, NSW
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| Keyacris scurra | 24 Aug 2025 | RogerF | ||
| Heide sp. (genus) | 23 Aug 2025 | Aussiegall |
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Significant sighting
5 comments
RogerF
wrote:
24 Aug 2025
Nb the number of antennae segments, c. 10-11. Also the more compact shape than Heide. It would overlap with Heide in this area. I have checkerd Penrose Cemetery for morabines but none seen so far.
Aussiegall
wrote:
24 Aug 2025
Thanks for all the information on the ID @RogerF . No idea they were in this area
RogerF
wrote:
24 Aug 2025
This is quite a significant eastward extension to range. Do you have any info on the vegetation at this site. Is Newbury Drive where you live? Roger
Aussiegall
wrote:
26 Aug 2025
@RogerF I found it in one of my neglected areas of the garden. It originally was a dry dirt patch under some gum trees which I chucked some mulch on and put in some native plants, Banksias and Grevilleas. Over time native grasses popped up and some Narrow leaved Geebungs so I just left that section of the garden to do as it pleased. I spotted it on one of the native grasses before it hopped onto the wire cage I was using to protect another plant from rabbits. The rest of the vegetation on our property consists of a couple of open paddocks with islands of regenerated vegetation around the paddock trees, as well as 14 acres of dry sclerophyll forest.
Location information
- Places Penrose, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- Aussiegall Recorded by
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Collections
- Aussiegall NatureMapr Southern Highlands Keyacris scurra Significant Featured ACT Most Wanted! NSW Government Priority Species ACT threatened species Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Species information
- Keyacris scurra Scientific name
- Key's Matchstick Grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1219m Recorded at altitude
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