#4172 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Acanthocephala terminalis
Acanthocephala terminalis
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 outside Europe
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Norm Townsend · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © B33 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © KT Thalin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © rabbithare · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Lisa Brown · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Matt Claghorn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Even Dankowicz · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Kevin · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Acanthocephala terminalis is a species of leaf-footed bug in the family Coreidae. It is found in North America.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 53,415 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1852 (174 years ago).
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Acanthocephala terminalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Coreidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 53,415
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1852
relatives· Coreidae
#3944 📷 10Dock Bug
🇳🇱 Zuringrandwants
Coreus marginatus
👀 1.5k in NL
#3949 📷 9Western Conifer Seed Bug
🇳🇱 Bladpootrandwants
Leptoglossus occidentalis
👀 1k in NL
#3956 📷 10Box Bug
🇳🇱 Smalle randwants
Gonocerus acuteangulatus
👀 519 in NL
#4040 📷 10Rhombic Leatherbug
🇳🇱 Ruitrandwants
Syromastus rhombeus
👀 68 in NL
#4184 📷 7Eastern Leaf-footed Bug
Leptoglossus phyllopus
🌍 27.8k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61445, Wikidata Q10398419, GBIF 5156079, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.