Grasshoppers
Species of the Orthoptera family that you may encounter while using a batdetector in the Netherlands
Grote groene sabelsprinkhaan (Tettigonia viridissima)
Great green bush-cricket

Struiksprinkhaan (Leptophyes punctatissima)
Speckled bush-cricket

Sikkelsprinkhaan (Phaneroptera falcata)
Sickle-bearing bush-cricket



Bramensprinkhaan (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
Dark bush-chricket

Heidesabelsprinkhaan (Metrioptera brachyptera)
Bog bush-cricket

Duinsabelsprinkhaan (Platycleis albopunctata)

Date of recording: 2016-09-09 Recorded by: Baudewijn Odé Audio file: 853137

Grote spitskop (Ruspolia nitidula)
Large conehead

Date of recording: 2023-09-15 Recorded by: brickegickel Audio file: 829629 (not recorded in the Netherlands)

Zuidelijke sikkelsprinkhaan (Phaneroptera nana)
Mediterranean Katydid

Schildboomsprinkhaan (Cyrtaspis scutata)
The first time this species was recorded in the Netherlands, it was mistaken for an advertising brown long-eared bat. Read about it's discovery here (in Dutch):
Verrassende vondst van de schildboomsprinkhaan Cyrtaspis scutata in Nederland (Orthoptera). Nederlandse Faunistische Mededelingen, Volume 52, 17-24 p.

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