#4015 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Roesel's Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Greppelsprinkhaan ·Roeseliana roeselii
📍 UWC Maastricht, Maastricht, Limburg, NL
📍 Limburg, NL
📍 3434 GL Nieuwegein, Nederland
📍 Tilburg, NL-NB, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Don Sutherland · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Bruno Durand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © AJC1 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Sarah · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Valentin Hamon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. UWC Maastricht, Maastricht, Limburg, NL:© tsillavanilla · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Limburg, NL:© QuestaGame · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. 3434 GL Nieuwegein, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Tilburg, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Roesel's bush-cricket ( Metrioptera roeselii ) is a European bush-cricket, named after August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, a German entomologist.
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 106 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 22,701 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Roesel's Bush-cricket
- Nederlands
- Greppelsprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Roeseliana roeselii
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tettigoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 106
- sightings in Europe
- 15,759
- sightings worldwide
- 22,701
- GBIF records in NL
- 33,973
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
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
#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 458944, Wikidata Q14284747, GBIF 4402879, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.