Sighting 4572252
Spur-throated Locust at QPRC LGA
Identification history
| Austracris guttulosa | 21 May 2024 | RogerF | ||
| Unidentified | 21 May 2024 | arjay |
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User's notes
Around 100 mm long. Quite a big grasshopper.
2 comments
RogerF
wrote:
21 May 2024
One of many local sightings of this immigrant species. There must be big populations in Norhern Australia
arjay
wrote:
21 May 2024
First time I have seen one ... which of course doesn't mean to say they haven't been here before. Although the size of it means that it is hard to miss.
Location information
- Maps Mongarlowe River
- Places Charleys Forest, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- arjay Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) arjay Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 50mm or larger Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Austracris guttulosa Scientific name
- Spur-throated Locust Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1334.85m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- 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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