#4139 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Upland Green Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Kleine groene sabelsprinkhaan ·Tettigonia cantans
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what is it?
Tettigonia cantans is a species of katydids belonging to the family Tettigoniidae subfamily Tettigoniinae.
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.
- 11,752 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Kaspar Füssli in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Upland Green Bush-cricket
- Nederlands
- Kleine groene sabelsprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Tettigonia cantans
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tettigoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 9,461
- sightings worldwide
- 11,752
- GBIF records in NL
- 699
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johann Kaspar Füssli
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
#4015 📷 10Roesel's Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Greppelsprinkhaan
Roeseliana roeselii
👀 106 in NL
#4025 📷 10Short-winged Conehead
🇳🇱 Gewoon spitskopje
Conocephalus dorsalis
👀 91 in NL
#4030 📷 10Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Sikkelsprinkhaan
Phaneroptera falcata
👀 85 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 423693, Wikidata Q245100, GBIF 8347376, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.