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:

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.[1]

Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)

Family Tettigoniidae (bush-crickets)

Super-family Grylloidea

Family Gryllidae

Family Mogoplistidae

Family Trigonidiidae

Family Gryllotalpidae (mole-crickets)

Family Tetrigidae (groundhoppers)

Family Acrididae (grasshoppers)

Order Blattodea (cockroaches)

Family Blattellidae

Order Dermaptera (earwigs)

Family Spongiphoridae

Family Forficulidae

References

  1. Ragge DR (1965). Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles. F Warne & Co, London. p. 299.
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