#4177 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Gray Bird Grasshopper
Schistocerca nitens
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what is it?
Schistocerca nitens is a species of grasshopper known by several common names, including vagrant grasshopper and gray bird grasshopper . It is a close relative of the desert locust, which is in the same genus. This grasshopper is native to southern North America including Mexico and the southwestern United States from California to Texas. Can also be found in parts of mid atlantic states. Recently found on Long Island New York. It is also present in parts...
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 36,994 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1815 (211 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Gray Bird Grasshopper
- scientific name
- Schistocerca nitens
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Acrididae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 36,994
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1815 by Carl Peter Thunberg
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 52158, Wikidata Q7431511, GBIF 1707345, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.