#4083 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Variabele dwergschaduwwants

Orthops basalis

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Barış Çerçi · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Sandy Rae · CC BY 4.0
3. 6874 Wolfheze, Nederland:© Carel Jongkind · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Alkmaar, Nederland:© Joost . · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Zuid-Holland, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Sportlaan, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. Scheveningen, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

Orthops basalis is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae that can be found everywhere in Europe except for Azores, Bosnia and Herzegovina Faroe Islands, Iceland and Cyprus.

base stats

NL sightings 33iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,468iNaturalist observations

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).