Sighting 3387614
Yellow-winged Locust or Grasshopper at Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Gastrimargus musicus | 23 Jul 2018 | RogerF | ||
| Gastrimargus musicus | 25 May 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 21 Dec 2017 | JudithRoach |
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User's notes
About 5 or 6mm I think. It was tiny. I think it might have been displaying. There was a lot of movement while stopped in the one place, on top of a piece of cut timber at the shelter. Alternatively maybe it was casting it's old exo-skeleton Very strange looking bug I think.
2 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
26 May 2018
I think this may be an early instar of the yellow-winged grasshopper
Location information
- Coordinates 148.765472-35.490749
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Dec 2017 12:29 PM Recorded on
- JudithRoach Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera)
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Gastrimargus musicus Scientific name
- Yellow-winged Locust or Grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1544.5m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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