#3999 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Dark Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Bramensprinkhaan ·Pholidoptera griseoaptera
📍 Berg en Dal, Netherlands
📍 Merwedepad, Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, NL
📍 Bosgebied Loenen, Loenen, Nederland
📍 Nationaal Park De Biesbosch, Werkendam, North Brabant, NL
📍 Berg en Dal, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Walwyn · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Dean Morley · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 5. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Berg en Dal, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Merwedepad, Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Bosgebied Loenen, Loenen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Nationaal Park De Biesbosch, Werkendam, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. Berg en Dal, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The dark bush-cricket ( Pholidoptera griseoaptera ) is a flightless species of bush-cricket.
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 147 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 43,012 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles De Geer in 1773 (253 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Dark Bush-cricket
- Nederlands
- Bramensprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Pholidoptera griseoaptera
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tettigoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 147
- sightings in Europe
- 36,499
- sightings worldwide
- 43,012
- GBIF records in NL
- 25,351
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1773 by Charles De Geer
relatives· Tettigoniidae
#3945 📷 9Great Green Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Grote groene sabelsprinkhaan
Tettigonia viridissima
👀 1.5k in NL
#3947 📷 8Speckled Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Struiksprinkhaan
Leptophyes punctatissima
LC 👀 1.3k in NL
#3952 📷 10Southern Oak Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke boomsprinkhaan
Meconema meridionale
LC 👀 858 in NL
#3972 📷 10Long-winged Conehead
🇳🇱 Zuidelijk spitskopje
Conocephalus fuscus
👀 296 in NL
#4015 📷 10Roesel's Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Greppelsprinkhaan
Roeseliana roeselii
👀 106 in NL
#4025 📷 10Short-winged Conehead
🇳🇱 Gewoon spitskopje
Conocephalus dorsalis
👀 91 in NL
#4030 📷 10Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Sikkelsprinkhaan
Phaneroptera falcata
👀 85 in NL
#4033 📷 10Oak Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Boomsprinkhaan
Meconema thalassinum
LC 👀 77 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 55359, Wikidata Q1500713, GBIF 1695297, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.