#4073 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Grey Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Duinsabelsprinkhaan ·Platycleis albopunctata
📍 Callantsoog, Netherlands
📍 Castricum, Nederland
📍 2061 Bloemendaal, Netherlands
📍 2224 Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands
📍 2116 Bentveld, Netherlands
📍 Bloemendaal, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Joachim Wimmer · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Callantsoog, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Castricum, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 2061 Bloemendaal, Netherlands:© nickfartree · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 2224 Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands:© dr. Werner de Gier · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 2116 Bentveld, Netherlands:© dr. Werner de Gier · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Bloemendaal, Nederland:© floris_heemskerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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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 38 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,703 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Grey Bush-cricket
- Nederlands
- Duinsabelsprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Platycleis albopunctata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tettigoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 38
- sightings in Europe
- 4,504
- sightings worldwide
- 5,703
- GBIF records in NL
- 7,649
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Johann August Ephraim Goeze
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
#3999 📷 10Dark Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Bramensprinkhaan
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
👀 147 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
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 362293, Wikidata Q1316351, GBIF 1685298, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.