#4115 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Common Maquis Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Dwergsprinkhaan ·Pezotettix giornae
📍 Südoststeiermark District, Austria
📍 83680 La Garde-Freinet, France
📍 07230 Payzac, France
📍 4690 Gralheira, Portugal
📍 8490 Bad Radkersburg, Österreich
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © jessica09 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Marco Bonifacino · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Benjamin ZELVELDER · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © katunchik · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Giacomo Gola · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Südoststeiermark District, Austria:© Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 83680 La Garde-Freinet, France:© Samuel GUIRAUDOU · CC BY 4.0
- 8. 07230 Payzac, France:© Anna Nikolenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 4690 Gralheira, Portugal:© zebedeugalinha · CC BY 4.0
- 10. 8490 Bad Radkersburg, Österreich:© lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Pezotettix giornae is a species of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Catantopinae....
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 4 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 11,520 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pietro Rossi in 1794 (232 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Maquis Grasshopper
- Nederlands
- Dwergsprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Pezotettix giornae
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Acrididae
- sightings in NL
- 4
- sightings in Europe
- 9,376
- sightings worldwide
- 11,520
- GBIF records in NL
- 2
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1794 by Pietro Rossi
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 333530, Wikidata Q1746465, GBIF 1710463, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.