Phaulacridium vittatum (Wingless Grasshopper)
Family Acrididae. A common southern Australian species that has two distinct forms for wing length, a brachypterous (short-winged) form and a macropterous (fully winged) form; the short-winged form, which has given rise to the misleading common name of 'Wingless Grasshopper', consititutes 80-90% of the population. Additionally, there are several colour forms.
This species can erupt in plague numbers in certain years and defoliate crop and pasture plants, and even shrubs and small trees.
Phaulacridium vittatum is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Hume | Barwon South West | Greater Brisbane | South East South Australia
No sightings currently exist.
Species information
- Phaulacridium vittatum Scientific name
- Wingless Grasshopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Minor weed or pest
- Up to 1753m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
Location information
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Maps
ANBG ANBG South Annex Aranda Bushland Bango Nature Reserve Banksia Street Wetland Corridor Bendora Reservoir Bicentennial Park Bimberi Nature Reserve Black Mountain Blue Gum Point to Attunga Bay Bluetts Block (402, 403, 12, 11) Bobundara Nature Reserve Boro Brindabella National Park Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill Budjan Galindji (Franklin Grassland) Reserve Bullen Range Bungonia Crown Reserve Caladenia Forest, O'Connor Campbell Park Woodland Corin Reservoir Cotter Reserve Crace Grasslands Cuumbeun Nature Reserve Dawson Street Gardens Denman Prospect 2 Estate Deferred Area (Block 12) Deua National Park (CNM area) Dryandra St Woodland Dunlop Grasslands Emu Creek Farrer Ridge Flea Bog Flat to Emu Creek Corridor Flea Bog Flat, Bruce Fowles St. Woodland, Weston Gibraltar Pines Gigerline Nature Reserve Ginninderry Conservation Corridor Googong Foreshore Goorooyarroo NR (ACT) Gorman Road Bush Reserve, Goulburn Goulburn Mulwaree Council Griffith Woodland Hall Horse Paddocks Higgins Woodland Hughes Grassy Woodland Illilanga & Baroona Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby Kama Katoomba Park, Campbell Kosciuszko National Park Kowen Escarpment Kuma Nature Reserve Lake Burley Griffin West Lions Youth Haven - Westwood Farm A.C.T. Lower Cotter Catchment Lyneham Ridge Mcleods Creek Res (Gundaroo) Meringo Nature Reserve Molonglo Gorge Molonglo River Reserve Mongarlowe River Mount Ainslie Mount Ainslie to Black Mountain Mount Gray Recreation Reserve, Goulburn Mount Jerrabomberra QP Mount Majura Mount Painter Mount Pleasant Mount Taylor Mulligans Flat Mundoonen Nature Reserve Namadgi National Park O'Connor Ridge to Gungahlin Grasslands Piney Ridge Red Hill Nature Reserve Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek Reservoir Hill, Lawson Rugosa Sherwood Forest Souths TSR on Mountain Ash Road Stony Creek Nature Reserve Sullivans Creek, Lyneham South Sullivans Creek, Turner Tharwa Bridge The Pinnacle Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Tuggeranong Hill Uriarra Recreation Reserve Wanna Wanna Nature Reserve Watson Woodlands West Belconnen Pond West Goulburn Bushland Reserve Woodstock Nature Reserve -
Places
Aranda, ACT Belconnen, ACT Bombay, NSW Booth, ACT Bungendore, NSW Bungonia, NSW Googong, NSW Goulburn, NSW Gundaroo, NSW Hall, ACT Holder, ACT Hughes, ACT Manton, NSW Michelago, NSW Murrumbateman, NSW O'Connor, ACT Parkesbourne, NSW Rendezvous Creek, ACT Russell, ACT Strathnairn, ACT Throsby, ACT
