Sighting 4693749
Keyacris scurra
2 Key's Matchstick Grasshopper at Penrose, NSW
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| Keyacris scurra | 8 Sep 2025 | RogerF | ||
| Keyacris scurra | 6 Sep 2025 | Aussiegall |
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Significant sighting
User's notes
Not sure on the ID. This was smaller than the one I sighted on the 23.8.25. In a different garden bed from the other sighting. The garden consists of some exotic plants, but also features clumps of Dianella and Lomandra that have regenerated on their own.
3 comments
RogerF
wrote:
8 Sep 2025
Nice shot on the Diosma but not a polliantor!!
Now you have to find me a Heide!!
Now you have to find me a Heide!!
Location information
- Places Penrose, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- Aussiegall Recorded by
- diosma Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Yes Insect on a flower
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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Record quality
Quality score
7 / 7
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