#4145 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Mediterranean Slant-faced Grasshopper

🇳🇱 Gewone neussprinkhaan ·Acrida ungarica

LCleast concern 🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Benoit NABHOLZ · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Acrida ungarica is a species of grasshopper found in southern and central Europe. It is commonly known as the (common) cone-headed grasshopper, nosed grasshopper, or Mediterranean slant-faced grasshopper....

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,200iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
8,200 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1786 (240 years ago).