#3967 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Common Field Grasshopper

🇳🇱 Bruine sprinkhaan ·Chorthippus brunneus

LCleast concern 🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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

what is it?

Chorthippus brunneus , a member of the subfamily Gomphocerinae, are more commonly referred to as the common field grasshopper. They were first described by Thunberg in 1815 and also are known as Gryllus brunneus although this name is not adopted in the literature. The IUCN lists C. brunneus as Least Concern.

base stats

NL sightings 351iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 38,608iNaturalist 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

Spotted 351 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #26 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
38,608 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1815 (211 years ago).