#4108 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Buffalo Treehopper
🇳🇱 Buffelcicade ·Stictocephala bisonia
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
The buffalo treehopper ( Stictocephala bisonia ) is a species of treehopper belonging to the subfamily Membracinae. It is also sometimes classified as Ceresa bisonia .
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 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,838 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Buffalo Treehopper
- Nederlands
- Buffelcicade
- scientific name
- Stictocephala bisonia
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Membracidae
- sightings in NL
- 8
- sightings in Europe
- 6,423
- sightings worldwide
- 8,838
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Membracidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1110561, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.