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.

Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)

Suborder [Ensifera] (crickets)

Family [Tettigoniidae] (bush-crickets)

Oak bush-cricket, Meconema thalassinum
Southern oak bush-cricket, Meconema meridionale
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, Roeseliana roeselii
Long-winged conehead, Conocephalus fuscus
Short-winged Conehead, Conocephalus dorsalis
Speckled bush-cricket, ''Leptophyes punctatissima''

Super-family [Grylloidea]

Family Gryllidae

Family Mogoplistidae

Scaly cricket, Pseudomogoplistes squamiger

Family Trigonidiidae

Wood cricket, ''Nemobius sylvestris''

Family [Gryllotalpidae] (mole-crickets)

Mole cricket, ''Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa''

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
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]