#4163 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Leek Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Bleekgroene sprinkhaan ·Mecostethus parapleurus
📍 Powiat kazimierski, Polska
📍 Gogolin, Polska
📍 Jennersdorf, Österreich
📍 77716 Hofstetten, Deutschland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © David GENOUD · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Powiat kazimierski, Polska:© id78 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Gogolin, Polska:© Monika Pastrykiewicz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Jennersdorf, Österreich:© lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 77716 Hofstetten, Deutschland:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Mecostethus parapleurus is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in the Palearctic.
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.
- 3,537 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Leek Grasshopper
- Nederlands
- Bleekgroene sprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Mecostethus parapleurus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Acrididae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3,148
- sightings worldwide
- 3,537
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
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 466988, Wikidata Q10578977, GBIF 1710561, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.