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 order covered by this list are:

• the Orthoptera - Grasshoppers and cricket
• the Dermaptera - earwigs
• the Blattodea - cockroaches

This article lists the native species only. A number of other species have been found in the wild as vagrants or accidental introductions.

Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)

Suborder Ensifera (crickets)

Family Tettigoniidae (bush-crickets)

• Oak bush-cricket Meconema thalassinum
• 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...... ...
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