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.
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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
Maps
Ainslie volcanic grassland Albury ANBG ANBG South Annex Apex Park (The Pines) Aranda Bushland Bango Nature Reserve Banksia Street Wetland Corridor Barunguba (Montague) Island Ben Boyd National Park 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 Bournda National Park Brindabella National Park Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill Budjan Galindji (Franklin Grassland) Reserve Bullen Range Bungonia Crown Reserve Burradoo Caladenia Forest, O'Connor Campbell Park Woodland Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park Clyde Cameron Reserve 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 Ewart Brothers Reserve Farrer Ridge Federation Hill Felltimber Creek NCR 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 Jack Perry Reserve Jerrawangala National Park 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 Mittagong 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 Nail Can Hill Namadgi National Park O'Connor Ridge to Gungahlin Grasslands Penrose 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 Wingecarribee Local Government Area Wodonga Woodstock Nature Reserve WREN ReservesPlaces
Aranda, ACT Belconnen, ACT Bombay, NSW Booth, ACT Bungendore, NSW Bungonia, NSW Campbell, ACT Cudgewa, VIC Googong, NSW Goulburn, NSW Gundaroo, NSW Hall, ACT Holder, ACT Hughes, ACT Jerrawangala, NSW Long Beach, NSW Manton, NSW Michelago, NSW Mittagong, NSW Murrumbateman, NSW O'Connor, ACT Parkesbourne, NSW Queanbeyan West, NSW Rendezvous Creek, ACT Russell, ACT Strathnairn, ACT Surf Beach, NSW Throsby, ACT West Wodonga, VIC Wodonga, VIC Yackandandah, VIC