#4906 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Lucerneflea
🇳🇱 Luzernespringstaart ·Sminthurus viridis
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Auckland, New Zealand
📍 80410 Cayeux-sur-Mer, France
📍 Gratkorn, Austria
📍 Lincoln, New Zealand
📍 Dorset, UK
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Rupert Lees · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Stephen Thorpe · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Rupert Lees · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Emanuel Kern · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Auckland, New Zealand:© Stephen Thorpe · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 80410 Cayeux-sur-Mer, France:© Tobias Polzer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Gratkorn, Austria:© Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Lincoln, New Zealand:© Nathan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Dorset, UK:© Wayne Sayers · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Sminthurus viridis is a member of the Collembola, the springtails, an order in the subphylum Hexapoda.
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 15 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,104 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lucerneflea
- Nederlands
- Luzernespringstaart
- scientific name
- Sminthurus viridis
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Symphypleona
- family
- Sminthuridae
- sightings in NL
- 15
- sightings in Europe
- 736
- sightings worldwide
- 1,104
- GBIF records in NL
- 511
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Sminthuridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 207552, Wikidata Q3963019, GBIF 5167064, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.