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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: Endangeredexternal link
Commonwealth status: Endangeredexternal link
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
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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
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