#4109 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Italian Tree Cricket
🇳🇱 Boomkrekel ·Oecanthus pellucens
📍 Κεντρική Μακεδονία, Ελλάδα
📍 Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France
📍 Beregszászi járás, Kárpátalja, Ukrajna
📍 Ишимбайский р-н, Респ. Башкортостан, Россия
📍 Niederösterreich, AT
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © POIGNANT Germain · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Nikola Szucsich · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Κεντρική Μακεδονία, Ελλάδα:© Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France:© Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Beregszászi járás, Kárpátalja, Ukrajna:© molnar_bence · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Ишимбайский р-н, Респ. Башкортостан, Россия:© Михаил Кривошеев / Mikhail Krivosheev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Niederösterreich, AT:© onlyme21 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Oecanthus pellucens , common name Italian tree cricket , is a species of tree crickets belonging to the family Gryllidae, subfamily Oecanthinae.
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 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,130 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Italian Tree Cricket
- Nederlands
- Boomkrekel
- scientific name
- Oecanthus pellucens
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Oecanthidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 8
- sightings in Europe
- 5,959
- sightings worldwide
- 7,130
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,015
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1763 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 332307, Wikidata Q455302, GBIF 1720967, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.