List of Orthoptera and allied insects of Great Britain

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:

• the Orthoptera - Grasshoppers and crickets
• the Dermaptera - earwigs
• the Blattodea - cockroaches

This article lists the native species only. A number of other species have been found in the wild as vagrants or accidental introductions.

Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)

Suborder Ensifera (crickets)

Family Tettigoniidae (bush-crickets)

• Oak bush-cricket Meconema thalassinum
• 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 Metrioptera roeselii
• Long-winged conehead Conocephalus discolor
• Short-winged Conehead Conocephalus dorsalis
• Speckled bush-cricket Leptophyes punctatissima

Family Gryllidae (true crickets)

• House cricket Acheta domesticus
• Field cricket Gryllus campestris
• Wood cricket Nemobius sylvestris
• Scaly cricket Pseudomogoplistes squamiger

Family Gryllotalpidae (mole-crickets)

• 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
• Stripe-winged grasshopper Stenobothrus lineatus
• Woodland grasshopper Omocestus rufipes
• Common green grasshopper Omocestus viridulus
• Field grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus
• Heath grasshopper Chorthippus vagans
• Meadow grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
• Lesser marsh grasshopper Chorthippus albomarginatus
• Rufous grasshopper Gomphocerippus rufus
• Mottled grasshopper Myrmeleotettix maculatus

Order Blattodea (cockroaches)

Family Blattellidae

• Dusky cockroach Ectobius lapponicus
• Tawny cockroach Ectobius pallidus
• Lesser cockroach Ectobius panzeri

Order Dermaptera (earwigs)

Family Labiidae

• Lesser earwig Labia minor

Family Forficulidae

• Short-winged earwig Apterygida media
• Common earwig Forficula auricularia
• Lesne's earwig Forficula lesnei

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