#4152 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Common Cicada
Lyristes plebejus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Lyristes plebejus is a species of true cicada. It is widely distributed in the shrublands and woodlands of Southern Europe, commonly found on olive trees, pine trees, oaks, and fruit trees.
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.
- 5,408 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Common Cicada
- scientific name
- Lyristes plebejus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Cicadidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,704
- sightings worldwide
- 5,408
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Cicadidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 361905, Wikidata Q3269711, GBIF 4482754, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.