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#3945 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Great Green Bush-cricket

🇳🇱 Grote groene sabelsprinkhaan ·Tettigonia viridissima

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
Great Green Bush-cricket, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0

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

  • NL sightings 1,510iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 68,669iNaturalist observations

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

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.

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