#3947 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Speckled Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Struiksprinkhaan ·Leptophyes punctatissima
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what is it?
The speckled bush-cricket ( Leptophyes punctatissima ) is a flightless species of bush-cricket that occurs across most of Europe.
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
- 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
#3945 📷 9Great Green Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Grote groene sabelsprinkhaan
Tettigonia viridissima
👀 1.5k in NL
#3952 📷 10Southern Oak Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke boomsprinkhaan
Meconema meridionale
LC 👀 858 in NL
#3972 📷 10Long-winged Conehead
🇳🇱 Zuidelijk spitskopje
Conocephalus fuscus
👀 296 in NL
#3999 📷 10Dark Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Bramensprinkhaan
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
👀 147 in NL
#4015 📷 10Roesel's Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Greppelsprinkhaan
Roeseliana roeselii
👀 106 in NL
#4025 📷 10Short-winged Conehead
🇳🇱 Gewoon spitskopje
Conocephalus dorsalis
👀 91 in NL
#4030 📷 10Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Sikkelsprinkhaan
Phaneroptera falcata
👀 85 in NL
#4033 📷 10Oak Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Boomsprinkhaan
Meconema thalassinum
LC 👀 77 in NL
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.
