#4125 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Citrus Flatid Planthopper
🇳🇱 Citrusplooicicade ·Metcalfa pruinosa
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)
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what is it?
Metcalfa pruinosa , the citrus flatid planthopper , is a species of insect in the Flatidae family of planthoppers first described by Thomas Say in 1830.
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 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 32,791 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1830 (196 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Citrus Flatid Planthopper
- Nederlands
- Citrusplooicicade
- scientific name
- Metcalfa pruinosa
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Flatidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 1
- sightings in Europe
- 5,215
- sightings worldwide
- 32,791
- GBIF records in NL
- 4
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1830 by Thomas Say
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 126209, Wikidata Q887032, GBIF 2068870, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.