Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Australian Alpine Grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis), recorded as Endangered
Australian Alpine Grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Australian Alpine Grasshopper

Kosciuscola tristis

Australian Alpine Grasshopper is a grasshopper in the family Acrididae (order Orthoptera) — Kosciuscola tristis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Australia.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Kosciuscola tristis
Recorded from
Australia
Taxonomy
Insecta · Orthoptera · Acrididae · Kosciuscola

The grasshopper

Short-horned grasshoppers are day-active jumpers of grass and bare ground. Hearing organs sit on the abdomen.

Grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets hear and sing. A species may be diagnosed by the song or by a mountain valley.

Range and habitat

Australian Alpine Grasshopper is recorded from Australia.

GBIF currently lists 341 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Life history

Song, season, and a named mountain are how many of these insects were split. A silent valley after fire is an empty record.

Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.

In crisis

Australian Alpine Grasshopper is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Kosciuscola tristis — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q11844672 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Australian Alpine Grasshopper?
Australian Alpine Grasshopper is a grasshopper in the family Acrididae (order Orthoptera) — Kosciuscola tristis.
What is the conservation status of Australian Alpine Grasshopper?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Kosciuscola tristis. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Australian Alpine Grasshopper live?
Australian Alpine Grasshopper, known generally as the chameleon skyhopper, is a short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae.
Why is Australian Alpine Grasshopper in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Kosciuscola tristis?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Australian Alpine Grasshopper a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.