#3945 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Great Green Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Grote groene sabelsprinkhaan ·Tettigonia viridissima
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what is it?
Tettigonia viridissima , the great green bush-cricket , is a large species of katydid or bush-cricket 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
- Spotted 1,510 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #4 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
- 68,669 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Great Green Bush-cricket
- Nederlands
- Grote groene sabelsprinkhaan
- scientific name
- Tettigonia viridissima
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tettigoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 1,510
- sightings in Europe
- 54,757
- sightings worldwide
- 68,669
- GBIF records in NL
- 169,952
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Tettigoniidae
#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
#4033 📷 10Oak Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Boomsprinkhaan
Meconema thalassinum
LC 👀 77 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 133250, Wikidata Q261181, GBIF 1692898, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
