Status and habitats of Orthoptera and allies in the Wildlife Trust BCN area
Local status Habitats
Common Occasional Rare Absent Increasing? heath Dry heath Wet grassland Dry Dampgrassland Roughgrass Wetlands Brambles Scrub/hedges Woodland Gardens Indoors English name Scientific name Ubiquitous Notes Bush-crickets Green-house camel-cricket Tachycines asynamorus ? 1 Greenhouses Oak bush-cricket Meconema thalassinum 1 1 1 1 * Flies to light Southern Oak bush-cricket Meconema meridionale 1 1 1 1 Great green bush-cricket Tettigonia viridissima 1 1 1 Wart-biter Decticus verrucivorus 1 Dark bush-cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera 1 ? 1 1 1 1 Grey bush-cricket Platycleis albopunctata 1 1 1 1 South coastal Bog bush-cricket Metrioptera brachyptera ? 1 Roesel's bush-cricket Metrioptera roeselii 1 1 Long-winged conehead Conocephalus discolor 1 1 1 1 Short-winged conehead Conocephalus dorsalis 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Speckled bush-cricket Leptophyes punctatissima 1 1 1 1 1 1 True crickets House-cricket Acheta domesticus 1 1 Field cricket Gryllus campestris 1 1 1 Wood-cricket Nemobius sylvestris 1 1 Scaly cricket Pseudomogoplistes vicentae 1 Coastal shingle Mole-crickets Mole-crickets Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa ? 1 1 Ground-hoppers Cepero's ground-hopper Tetrix ceperoi 1 ? 1 1 1 Slender ground-hopper Tetrix subulata 1 ? 1 1 Common ground-hopper Tetrix undulata 1 1 1 1 Mossy bare ground Grasshoppers & locusts Blue-winged grasshopper Oedipoda caerulescens 1 1 Large marsh grasshopper Stethophyma grossum 1 1 1 Migratory locust Locusta migratoria Migrant, esp. S coast Stripe-winged grasshopper Stenobothrus lineatus 1 1 1 Lesser mottled grasshopper Stenobothrus stigmaticus 1 1 1 Woodland grasshopper Omocestus rufipes ? 1 Clearings in woods Common green grasshopper Omocestus viridulus 1 1 1 1 1 Status and habitats of Orthoptera and allies in the Wildlife Trust BCN area
Local status Habitats
Common Occasional Rare Absent Increasing? heath Dry heath Wet grassland Dry Dampgrassland Roughgrass Wetlands Brambles Scrub/hedges Woodland Gardens Indoors English name Scientific name Ubiquitous Notes Field grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Heath grasshopper Chorthippus vagans 1 1 Meadow grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Lesser marsh grasshopper Chorthippus albomarginatus 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Jersey grasshopper Euchorthippus pulvinatus 1 1 Rufous grasshopper Gomphocerippus rufus ? 1 1 1 Grass sheltered by scrub Mottled grasshopper Myrmeleotettix maculatus 1 1 1 Dry short turf & bare ground Native cockroaches Dusky cockroach Ectobius lapponicus 1 1 1 1 1 Tawny cockroach Ectobius pallidus ? 1 1 1 1 1 Lesser cockroach Ectobius panzeri 1 1 1 1 1 1 Earwigs Lesser earwig Labia minor 1 Dung heaps Hop-garden earwig Apterygida media ? 1 1 1 Common earwig Forficula auricularia 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Lesne's earwig Forficula lesnei 1 1 1 Giant earwig Labidura riparia 1 1 Coastal + river mud + shingle TOTAL = 42 spp. 1 6 7 8 12 4 11 8 16 9 14 9 5 13 18 7 3
A number of introduced, non-native or migratory species also occur in the British Isles ver 1.2 2017 © B.Eversham/Wildlife Trust BCN 2017 Comments welcome, to [email protected] please