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Threatened species

Key’s Matchstick Grasshopper - NSW South Western Slopes: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Keyacris scurra
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Last updated: 20 Aug 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Key’s Matchstick Grasshopper is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the NSW South Western Slopes Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Inland Slopes Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Key’s Matchstick Grasshopper - NSW South Western Slopes is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Grassy woodlands
    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 3373 Goulburn Tableland Box-Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3375 Monaro-Queanbeyan Rolling Hills Grassy Forest
      • 3376 Southern Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
      • 1330 Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodland on the tablelands, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 312 Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on valley flats in the upper slopes of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
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    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3382 Kosciuszko Eastern Slopes Mountain Gum Forest
      • 3383 Kosciuszko Subalpine Hollows Black Sally Woodland
    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 3341 Monaro-Gourock Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 283 Apple Box - Blakely's Red Gum moist valley and footslopes grass-forb open forest of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 337 Apple Box - Silver Banksia - Drooping Sheoak open woodland - tall shrubland in protected gullies of the Coolac - Tumut serpentinite belt, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion.
      • 279 Blakely's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine woodland on footslopes of hills in central part of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 277 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 201 Fuzzy Box Woodland on alluvial brown loam soils mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 286 Red Box - Blakely's Red Gum sedge woodland on colluvial clay drainage lines in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 426 Red Box - White Box +/- Red Stringybark hill woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 278 Riparian Blakely's Red Gum - box - shrub - sedge - grass tall open forest of the central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 3406 Southwest Ranges White Box Woodland
      • 3400 Southwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Grassy Woodland
      • 347 White Box - Blakely's Red Gum shrub/grass woodland on metamorphic hillslopes in the mid-southern part of the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 266 White Box grassy woodland in the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 276 Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on alluvium or parna loams and clays on flats in NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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