Cavernotetrix flindersensis (captive specimen from PSI photographed in Hobart). Photo by Michael Driessen.
TABLE 1 Known records of Orthoptera for the eastern Bass Strait Islands Taxa
Location
Source
Minyacris nana
Cape Barren Island Fisher Island Flinders Island
(Key 1992)
Phaulacridium vittatum
Cape Barren Island Flinders Island
(Key 1992)
Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis
Cape Barren Island Flinders Island
(Key 1991)
Austroicetes vulgaris
Babel Island Flinders Island Great Dog Island
(Key 1954)
Flinders Island
(Key 1972)
Cape Barren Island
(Otte and Alexander 1983)
Cavernotettix flindersensis
Babel Island Flinders Island Little Dog Island
(Richards 1974)
Cavernotettix craggiensis
Craggy Island
(Richards 1974)
Parvotettix whinrayi
Kent Group islands (Erith, Dover, North East Island, Deal Island)
(Richards 1974)
Parvotettix rangaensis
Cape Barren Island Flinders Island
(Richards 1971)
Acrididae
Pyrgomorphidae Psednura pedestris Gryllidae Bobilla tasmani Rhaphidophoridae
TABLE 2 Previous records of Austracris guttulosa for Tasmania. Location
Observer
Date
Accession No.
Devonport, K-Mart carpark
L. Hill
2 Sep1992
33038
Devonport, Stony Rise
L. Hill
1 Apr 1996
51268
King Island
A.B Wherrett
Aug 1943
51269
Smithton
L. Hill
17 Apr 1992
33037
Devonport, Stony Rise
P. Gardam
4 Apr 2008
103896
East Devonport, TT Line wharf
F. Viney
17 Apr 2008
103897
Source: DPIPWE Invertebrate Collection, New Town
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