#4849 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Belted Springtail
🇳🇱 Gordelspringstaart ·Orchesella cincta
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Christian Sørensen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Christian Sørensen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Stuart Tingley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Orchesella cincta is a species of springtail present in North America and Europe. 16 in) in length.
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 563 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #3 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 11,186 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Belted Springtail
- Nederlands
- Gordelspringstaart
- scientific name
- Orchesella cincta
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Entomobryomorpha
- family
- Orchesellidae
- sightings in NL
- 563
- sightings in Europe
- 7,617
- sightings worldwide
- 11,186
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,273
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Orchesellidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 132308, Wikidata Q7100224, GBIF 2120964, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.