#4118 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Rufous Grasshopper

🇳🇱 Rosse sprinkhaan ·Gomphocerippus rufus

LCleast concern 🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ján Svetlík · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Laurence Livermore · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. Amering, Österreich:© E. A. · CC BY 4.0
8. Первомайский р-н, Алтайский край, Россия:© Александр Скачко · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Jennersdorf, Österreich:© lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 78132 Hornberg, Deutschland:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The rufous grasshopper is a medium-sized, broad, brown, 'short-horned' grasshopper with clubbed antennae that are tipped with a conspicuous white or pale color. This insect is known as both Gomphocerippus rufus and Gomphocerus rufus . It is fairly large, averaging 14 to 22 mm in length. It is of the subfamily Gomphocerinae in the family Acrididae, the predominant family of grasshoppers. This species is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic ecozone and in the Near...

base stats

NL sightings 3iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,328iNaturalist 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).