Perunga ochracea

5 Perunga grasshopper, Cross-dressing Grasshopper at Ngunnawal, ACT

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Identification history

	Perunga ochracea	26 Sep 2024	MichaelBedingfield
	Perunga ochracea	24 Sep 2024	SteveBorkowskis

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Significant sighting

MichaelMulvaney noted:

26 Sep 2024

New recorded location of this threatened Grasshopper

3 comments

RogerF wrote:

25 Sep 2024

A significant sighting at Reservoir Hill. Vth instar nymph

SteveBorkowskis wrote:

25 Sep 2024

Hi Roger, just clarifying that this sighting is at ‘Hill Reserve’ in Ngunnawal (not ‘Reservoir Hill’ in Lawson). I’m not sure if it also goes by that name, it was my first time there yesterday.

RogerF wrote:

25 Sep 2024

Thanks for the correction. Still a first sighting thwere

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Location information

Coordinates 149.111694 -35.177742
Altitude 647.8m
Maps Hill Reserve
Places Ngunnawal, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
24 Sep 2024 02:01 PM Recorded on
SteveBorkowskis Recorded by
Collections
Significant Featured Insects Grasshoppers (several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) SteveBorkowskis Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr ACT threatened species

Additional information

12mm to 25mm Animal size
Alive / healthy Animal health

Species information

Perunga ochracea Scientific name
Perunga grasshopper, Cross-dressing Grasshopper Common name
Not Sensitive
Endangered *
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 816.55m Recorded at altitude
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