List of Orthoptera and allied insects of Great Britain

The following is a list of the grasshoppers, crickets and allied insect species recorded in Britain. The 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 introduced species. Many of the Orthopteran common names were synthesised from older sources or coined where necessary by Dr. D. R. Ragge.^[1]

Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)

Suborder Ensifera (crickets)

Suborder Caelifera (grasshoppers and 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)

Family Blattellidae

Dusky cockroach, Ectobius lapponicus
Tawny cockroach, Ectobius pallidus
Lesser cockroach, Capraiellus panzeri

Order Dermaptera (earwigs)

Family Spongiphoridae

Lesser earwig, Labia minor

Family Forficulidae

Short-winged earwig, Apterygida media
Chelidurella acanthopygia^[2]
Common earwig, Forficula auricularia
Lesne's earwig, Forficula lesnei

References

^ Ragge DR (1965). Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles. F Warne & Co, London. p. 299.
^ Dermaptera Species File: species Chelidurella acanthopygia (Géné, 1832) (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 May 2023)