#4068 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Gold Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Gouden sprinkhaan ·Chrysochraon dispar
📍 Kalenberg-Zuid, 8377 HG Kalenberg, Nederland
📍 Maastricht, NL-LI, NL
📍 6276 Heijenrath, Nederland
📍 8377 Kalenberg, Nederland
📍 Kalenberg, Netherlands
📍 Posterholt, Netherlands
📍 8371 Scheerwolde, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Frank Vassen · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Ján Svetlík · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. Kalenberg-Zuid, 8377 HG Kalenberg, Nederland:© robbel1960 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Maastricht, NL-LI, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 6276 Heijenrath, Nederland:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 8377 Kalenberg, Nederland:© Jeroen van der Brugge · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Kalenberg, Netherlands:© Guy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Posterholt, Netherlands:© marcel-silvius · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 8371 Scheerwolde, Nederland:© Gerben ter Haar · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
It is found across the Palearctic east to Siberia .
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 41 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,476 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1831 (195 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Gold Grasshopper
- Nederlands
- Gouden sprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Chrysochraon dispar
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Acrididae
- sightings in NL
- 41
- sightings in Europe
- 5,345
- sightings worldwide
- 7,476
- GBIF records in NL
- 13,423
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1831 by Ernst Friedrich Germar
relatives· Acrididae
#3960 📷 7Blue-winged Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Blauwvleugelsprinkhaan
Oedipoda caerulescens
LC 👀 400 in NL
#3965 📷 10Mottled Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Knopsprietje
Myrmeleotettix maculatus
👀 354 in NL
#3967 📷 10Common Field Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Bruine sprinkhaan
Chorthippus brunneus
LC 👀 351 in NL
#3980 📷 10Large Marsh Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Moerassprinkhaan
Stethophyma grossum
👀 255 in NL
#3982 📷 9Meadow Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Krasser
Pseudochorthippus parallelus
👀 242 in NL
#3992 📷 10Lesser Marsh Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Kustsprinkhaan
Chorthippus albomarginatus
👀 191 in NL
#4058 📷 7Bow-winged Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Ratelaar
Chorthippus biguttulus
👀 53 in NL
#4059 📷 10Common Green Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Wekkertje
Omocestus viridulus
👀 52 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 465461, Wikidata Q1548221, GBIF 1700841, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.