#4138 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Broad Green-winged Grasshopper

🇳🇱 Plompe groenvleugel ·Aiolopus strepens

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

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

what is it?

Aiolopus strepens is a species of grasshopper belonging to the family Acrididae, subfamily Oedipodinae. It is present in most of Europe, in the Afrotropic ecozone, in the Near East and in North Africa. 22 in) long. They can be encountered from July through October. After mating these grasshoppers overwinter as adults.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,857iNaturalist observations

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.
11,857 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1804 (222 years ago).