#4025 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Short-winged Conehead

🇳🇱 Gewoon spitskopje ·Conocephalus dorsalis

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Axel Gosseries · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Schildwolde, Groningen, NL:© Andre Hosper · CC BY 4.0
6. Udenhout, Nederland:© roberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Waterland, NL-NH, NL:© anomalocarislovurr · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Westbroek, Nederland:© jasper_boks · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Leidschendam, Netherlands:© dr. Werner de Gier · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 9551 Sellingen, Nederland:© Andre Hosper · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Conocephalus dorsalis is a species belonging to the family Tettigoniidae subfamily Conocephalinae. It is a hygrophilous species, and is therefore common in wet meadows and slow-flowing streams with floating plants, lowland peatlands, reed beds . It is found throughout Europe and it is common in northern Germany, southern England and southern Scandinavia...

base stats

NL sightings 91iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,891iNaturalist 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).