#4153 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Verge Cricket
🇳🇱 Spoorkrekel ·Eumodicogryllus bordigalensis
📍 Primorsko-Goranska, HR
📍 Nord, Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutschland
📍 Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal
📍 Habsburgerstraße, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, DE
📍 Almería, España
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Associação Vita Nativa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Valentin Hamon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Ralph Martin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. Primorsko-Goranska, HR:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Nord, Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutschland:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal:© Duarte Frade · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Habsburgerstraße, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, DE:© Carlos Muñoz-Amezcua · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Almería, España:© faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Eumodicogryllus bordigalensis , also known as the verge cricket , is a cricket found in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,201 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Verge Cricket
- Nederlands
- Spoorkrekel
- scientific name
- Eumodicogryllus bordigalensis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Gryllidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3,818
- sightings worldwide
- 5,201
- GBIF records in NL
- 382
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Gryllidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 505000, Wikidata Q50724469, GBIF 1722140, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.