List of Orthoptera species of Ireland


There are ten species of Orthoptera native to Ireland, seven grasshoppers and three bush-crickets. A further species, the mole cricket, is thought to be possibly extirpated, given only one record from 1920.

Family: Acrididae

Subfamily: Gomphocerinae (slant-faced grasshoppers)

Subfamily: Oedipodinae (bandwings)

Family: Phaneropteridae

Tribe: Barbitistini

Family: Tettigoniidae

Subfamily: Meconematinae

Subfamily: Tettigoniinae

Family: Tetrigidae (pygmy grasshoppers)

Subfamily: Tetriginae

Family: Gryllotalpidae (mole crickets)