Percassa rugifrons

2 Mountain Grasshopper at Cotter River, ACT

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Identification history

Percassa rugifrons	19 Feb 2018	MichaelMulvaney
Percassa rugifrons	18 Feb 2018	RogerF
Unidentified	17 Feb 2018	HarveyPerkins

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The female would have been about 50 mm in length, the male only about 25-30 mm.

3 comments

RogerF wrote:

19 Feb 2018

This is a common grasshopper of montane areas, living in shrubbery. There is no need to suppress location. I'm surprised it has not been recorded before, See page 153 my book..

AaronClausen wrote:

19 Feb 2018

Hi RogerF, this shouldn't be suppressed for you. Can you see the coordinates listed over on the right hand side of page? But I did notice Google is having some image issues with missing images and blurry images at certain zoom levels.

RogerF wrote:

19 Feb 2018

Aaron,
Yes the coordinates are listed below the blank image, but the line below, headed location, says location surpressed. So I supposed this was due to an alleged rarity of this grasshopper.

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Sighting information

2 Abundance
12 Feb 2018 09:35 AM Recorded on
HarveyPerkins Recorded by
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Insects Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Grasshoppers (several families)

Additional information

25mm to 50mm Animal size
Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour
Mixed Gender

Species information

Percassa rugifrons Scientific name
Mountain Grasshopper Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1712.08m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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