#4150 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Common Straw Grasshopper

🇳🇱 Franse prairiesprinkhaan ·Euchorthippus declivus

LCleast concern 🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Ettore Balocchi · CC BY 4.0
3. © Sarah Gregg · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Sarah Gregg · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © co_vuillonnex_933 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Haus2, Croatia:© Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Kalnik, Croatia:© Valentina 🦋 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Jennersdorf, Österreich:© lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. West Macedonia Region, Greece:© Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
10. Provincia di Varese, Italia:© Mirko Tomasi · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Euchorthippus declivus , the Jersey grasshopper or sharp-tailed grasshopper , is a species of short-horned grasshoppers belonging to the family Acrididae, subfamily Gomphocerinae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,792iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,792 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles N. F. Brisout in 1848 (178 years ago).