#4103 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Western Saddle Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Zadelsprinkhaan ·Ephippiger diurnus
📍 84340 Beaumont-du-Ventoux, France
📍 dallet
📍 34380, Notre-Dame-de-Londres, Languedoc-Roussillon, FR
📍 07110 Montréal, France
📍 Le Salagou, Liausson, Occitanie, FR
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Julien Barataud · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © osoandino · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. 84340 Beaumont-du-Ventoux, France:© Florent YVERT · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. dallet:© rubisch · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 34380, Notre-Dame-de-Londres, Languedoc-Roussillon, FR:© oscarime · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 07110 Montréal, France:© Sophie Mowles · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Le Salagou, Liausson, Occitanie, FR:© leforain · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
De zadelsprinkhaan ( Ephippiger diurnus ) is een rechtvleugelig insect uit de familie sabelsprinkhanen (Tettigoniidae), onderfamilie Bradyporinae.
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 14 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,923 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Western Saddle Bush-cricket
- Nederlands
- Zadelsprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Ephippiger diurnus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tettigoniidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 14
- sightings in Europe
- 4,199
- sightings worldwide
- 4,923
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Tettigoniidae
#3945 📷 9Great Green Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Grote groene sabelsprinkhaan
Tettigonia viridissima
👀 1.5k in NL
#3947 📷 8Speckled Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Struiksprinkhaan
Leptophyes punctatissima
LC 👀 1.3k in NL
#3952 📷 10Southern Oak Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke boomsprinkhaan
Meconema meridionale
LC 👀 858 in NL
#3972 📷 10Long-winged Conehead
🇳🇱 Zuidelijk spitskopje
Conocephalus fuscus
👀 296 in NL
#3999 📷 10Dark Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Bramensprinkhaan
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
👀 147 in NL
#4015 📷 10Roesel's Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Greppelsprinkhaan
Roeseliana roeselii
👀 106 in NL
#4025 📷 10Short-winged Conehead
🇳🇱 Gewoon spitskopje
Conocephalus dorsalis
👀 91 in NL
#4030 📷 10Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Sikkelsprinkhaan
Phaneroptera falcata
👀 85 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 424371, Wikidata Q10486023, GBIF 1683978, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.