#4038 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Slender Groundhopper
🇳🇱 Zeggendoorntje ·Tetrix subulata
📍 Voorschoten, Nederland
📍 Nobelweg, Amsterdam, North Holland, NL
📍 Krimpen aan den IJssel, Nederland
📍 Beerze, Boxtel, North Brabant, NL
📍 Millingen am Rhein, Niederlande
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jim Johnson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Tina Ellegaard Poulsen · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Olivier Benoist · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Sean Birk Bek Craig · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Ramunė Vakarė · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. Voorschoten, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Nobelweg, Amsterdam, North Holland, NL:© Meer Planten · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Krimpen aan den IJssel, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. Beerze, Boxtel, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. Millingen am Rhein, Niederlande:© Roland Achtziger · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Tetrix subulata the slender ground-hopper is a species of groundhopper in the Orthoptera: Caelifera. It is found across the Palearctic: in many parts of Europe, including all of the British Isles, and east to Siberia and to the south parts of North Africa. It is also found in North America, where it may be called the "awl-shaped pygmy grasshopper" or "slender grouse locust".
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 72 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,628 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Slender Groundhopper
- Nederlands
- Zeggendoorntje
- scientific name
- Tetrix subulata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tetrigidae
- sightings in NL
- 72
- sightings in Europe
- 3,684
- sightings worldwide
- 5,628
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,843
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
relatives· Tetrigidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 129129, Wikidata Q738790, GBIF 1681124, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.