#4874 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Bruine bladspringer
Allacma fusca
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 Hoenderloo, Netherlands
📍 Enschede, Overijssel, NL
📍 Alkmaar, Nederland
📍 Nationaal Park De Loonse en Drunense Duinen, Drunen, Brabant, NL
📍 Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Philippe Garcelon · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Andy Murray · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © AJC1 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Hoenderloo, Netherlands:© Frank Ashwood · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Enschede, Overijssel, NL:© fio0ona · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Alkmaar, Nederland:© Joost . · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Nationaal Park De Loonse en Drunense Duinen, Drunen, Brabant, NL:© Mats Douma · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Allacma fusca is a species of springtail. This species is endemic to western areas of Continental Europe and the British Isles.
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 55 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #28 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 2,377 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Bruine bladspringer
- scientific name
- Allacma fusca
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Symphypleona
- family
- Sminthuridae
- sightings in NL
- 55
- sightings in Europe
- 1,692
- sightings worldwide
- 2,377
- GBIF records in NL
- 111
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Sminthuridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 356218, Wikidata Q4548336, GBIF 4537246, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.