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The following is a list of the species of
grasshopper ,
cricket and allied insects recorded from Britain. The insect
orders covered by this list are:
This article lists the
native species only. A number of other species have been found in the wild as
vagrants or
accidental introductions . Many of the Orthopteran common names were synthesised from older sources or coined where necessary by Dr. DR Ragge.
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Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)
Suborder
Ensifera (crickets)
Oak bush-cricket
Meconema thalassinum
Southern oak bush-cricket
Meconema meridionale (since 2001)
Great green bush-cricket
Tettigonia viridissima
Wart-biter
Decticus verrucivorus
Dark bush-cricket
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Grey bush-cricket
Platycleis albopunctata
Bog bush-cricket
Metrioptera brachyptera
Roesel's bush-cricket
Roeseliana roeselii
Long-winged conehead
Conocephalus fuscus
Short-winged Conehead
Conocephalus dorsalis
Speckled bush-cricket
Leptophyes punctatissima
Family
Gryllidae
House cricket
Acheta domesticus
Field cricket
Gryllus campestris
Family
Mogoplistidae
Scaly cricket
Pseudomogoplistes squamiger
Family
Trigonidiidae
Wood cricket
Nemobius sylvestris
Mole cricket
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
Suborder
Caelifera (grasshoppers & allies)
Family
Tetrigidae (groundhoppers)
Cepero's groundhopper
Tetrix ceperoi
Slender groundhopper
Tetrix subulata
Common groundhopper
Tetrix undulata
Family
Acrididae (grasshoppers)
Large marsh grasshopper
Stethophyma grossum - rare and restricted to the
New Forest and
Dorset
Stripe-winged grasshopper
Stenobothrus lineatus
Lesser mottled grasshopper
Stenobothrus stigmaticus (
Isle of Man only)
Woodland grasshopper
Omocestus rufipes
Common green grasshopper
Omocestus viridulus
Field grasshopper
Chorthippus brunneus
Heath grasshopper
Chorthippus vagans
Lesser marsh grasshopper
Chorthippus albomarginatus
Meadow grasshopper
Pseudochorthippus parallelus
Rufous grasshopper
Gomphocerippus rufus
Mottled grasshopper
Myrmeleotettix maculatus
Order Blattodea (cockroaches)
Dusky cockroach
Ectobius lapponicus
Tawny cockroach
Ectobius pallidus
Lesser cockroach
Capraiellus panzeri
Order Dermaptera (earwigs)
Short-winged earwig
Apterygida media
Chelidurella acanthopygia
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Common earwig
Forficula auricularia
Lesne's earwig
Forficula lesnei
References
See also
Invertebrates
Vertebrates See also