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#3947 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Speckled Bush-cricket

🇳🇱 Struiksprinkhaan ·Leptophyes punctatissima

LCleast concern 🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
Speckled Bush-cricket, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © Ludivine Lamare · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The speckled bush-cricket ( Leptophyes punctatissima ) is a flightless species of bush-cricket that occurs across most of Europe.

base stats

  • NL sightings 1,312iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 26,262iNaturalist 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

  • Spotted 1,312 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #6 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
  • 26,262 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1792 (234 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Speckled Bush-cricket
Nederlands
Struiksprinkhaan
scientific name
Leptophyes punctatissima
class
Insecta
order
Orthoptera
family
Tettigoniidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
1,312
sightings in Europe
24,061
sightings worldwide
26,262
GBIF records in NL
82,264
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1792 by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Tettigoniidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 131035, Wikidata Q1757342, GBIF 1688020, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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