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Crickets / Grasshoppers - Orthoptera

Group Description

An order of insects made up of 2 suborders, 2 superfamilies and 11 families.

SubGroups

name latinname species sightings media image
Common Field Grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus 1 16 62 image for Common Field Grasshopper
Common Groundhopper Tetrix undulata 1 1 1 image for Common Groundhopper
Dark Bush-cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera 1 7 17 image for Dark Bush-cricket
Lesser Marsh Grasshopper Chorthippus albomarginatus 1 3 9 image for Lesser Marsh Grasshopper
Long-winged Conehead Conocephalus fuscus 1 8 19 image for Long-winged Conehead
Meadow Grasshopper Pseudochorthippus parallelus 1 10 31 image for Meadow Grasshopper
Oak Bush-cricket Meconema thalassinum 1 2 10 image for Oak Bush-cricket
Roesel's Bush-cricket Metrioptera roeselii 1 5 17 image for Roesel's Bush-cricket
Short-winged Cone-head Conocephalus dorsalis 1 2 1 image for Short-winged Cone-head
Slender Ground-hopper Tetrix subulata 1 2 8 image for Slender Ground-hopper
Speckled Bush-cricket Leptophyes punctatissima 1 15 56 image for Speckled Bush-cricket