Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket

Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket

Antaxius spinibrachius

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
at Porto

In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%

36 Verified sightings at Porto
49 In 1 park From 2019 to 2026
August Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Sierra de Guadarrama National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
~10%

More parks will be added in future updates.

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Porto 🇵🇹 Portugal
~10%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket in Porto?

With luck

About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket sighting in Porto on a given day, based on 36 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 153rd most-seen of the 498 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket in Porto?

April to October

In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket in Porto on a given day, against under 5% in November to March, the lowest months.

What time of day is best to see a Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket?

Between 9 am and noon

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Where else can you see a Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket?

Only Porto, in our data

Porto is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.

Which relatives of the Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket live in Porto?

Same family: Tettigoniidae

The closest relatives of the Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket that you can see in Porto (family Tettigoniidae, Katydids) are Great Green Bush-Cricket (about 10%), Large Conehead (about 10%) and Mediterranean Katydid (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Portuguese Mountain Bush-Cricket is recorded against all the insects logged in Porto (36 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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