#4064 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Common Groundhopper
🇳🇱 Gewoon doorntje ·Tetrix undulata
📍 Alkmaar, Nederland
📍 8421 Oldeberkoop, Nederland
📍 The Loonse en Drunense Duinen National Park, Udenhout, North Brabant, NL
📍 2114 Vogelenzang, Netherlands
📍 Valkenswaard, NL-NB, NL
📍 Noordenveld, Drenthe, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Julien Preud'homme · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 3. Alkmaar, Nederland:© Joost . · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. 8421 Oldeberkoop, Nederland:© wleurs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 6. The Loonse en Drunense Duinen National Park, Udenhout, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. 2114 Vogelenzang, Netherlands:© Milo "Bulle" van Loon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Valkenswaard, NL-NB, NL:© Marsel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Noordenveld, Drenthe, Netherlands:© Dr. Sven Gippner · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Lars Willighagen · CC BY 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 48 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,631 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by James Sowerby in 1806 (220 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Groundhopper
- Nederlands
- Gewoon doorntje
- scientific name
- Tetrix undulata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tetrigidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 48
- sightings in Europe
- 1,650
- sightings worldwide
- 2,631
- GBIF records in NL
- 8,498
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1806 by James Sowerby
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Tetrigidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 362305, Wikidata Q1500642, GBIF 1681247, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.