#4078 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Woodland Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Zwart wekkertje ·Omocestus rufipes
📍 Klarenbeek, Nederland
📍 Rozendaal, Gelderland, NL
📍 District 00, Rozendaal, Gelderland, NL
📍 Scheerseveldweg, Coevorden, Drenthe, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Louis TON · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © sanca13 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © katunchik · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Luca Fornasari · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Klarenbeek, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Rozendaal, Gelderland, NL:© LuukKleisterlee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. District 00, Rozendaal, Gelderland, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Scheerseveldweg, Coevorden, Drenthe, NL:© Andre Hosper · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Omocestus rufipes , the woodland grasshopper , is a species of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Gomphocerinae.
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 34 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,759 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Woodland Grasshopper
- Nederlands
- Zwart wekkertje
- scientific name
- Omocestus rufipes
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Acrididae
- sightings in NL
- 34
- sightings in Europe
- 6,056
- sightings worldwide
- 7,759
- GBIF records in NL
- 8,438
- 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 362311, Wikidata Q2381053, GBIF 1710802, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.