#4143 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Small Gold Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Kleine goudsprinkhaan ·Euthystira brachyptera
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Lukas Thiess · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Joachim Wimmer · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © rupicapra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Euthystira brachyptera , the Small Gold Grasshopper , is a species of grasshopper belonging to the family Acrididae.
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.
- 8,287 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ferenc Ocskay in 1826 (200 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Small Gold Grasshopper
- Nederlands
- Kleine goudsprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Euthystira brachyptera
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Acrididae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 6,660
- sightings worldwide
- 8,287
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1826 by Ferenc Ocskay
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 340425, Wikidata Q846867, GBIF 1701343, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.