#4158 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Green Mountain Grasshopper

🇳🇱 Groene bergsprinkhaan ·Miramella alpina

LCleast concern 🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Bruno Durand · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Bad Gastein, Österreich:© twity11_gabrielarossi · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Lilienfeld District, Austria:© Philipp Pavelka · CC BY 4.0
6. Rax, Austria:© Philipp Pavelka · CC BY 4.0
7. 72270 Baiersbronn, Deutschland:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Bozsok, 9727 Hungary:© Gábor Keresztes · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Tyrnau, Österreich:© sabine-g · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 77728 Oppenau, Deutschland:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Miramella alpina , the 'Green Mountain Grasshopper', is a species of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Melanoplinae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,527iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,527 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Vincenz Kollar in 1833 (193 years ago).