#4061 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Willow Spittlebug
Aphrophora salicina
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Aphrophora salicina is een halfvleugelig insect uit de familie Aphrophoridae. De wetenschappelijke naam van deze soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1778 door Goeze.
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
- Spotted 52 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,545 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Willow Spittlebug
- scientific name
- Aphrophora salicina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Aphrophoridae
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 52
- sightings in Europe
- 519
- sightings worldwide
- 2,545
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,802
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Aphrophoridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 510850, Wikidata Q10415558, GBIF 4482772, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.