Sussex Orthoptera Atlas Online. Species list and maps
To view a map, click the species name.
Orthoptera (sensu stricto), bush-crickets, crickets, groundhoppers and grasshoppers:
- 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, Metrioptera roeselii - Long-winged cone-head, Conocephalus discolor - Short-winged cone-head, Conocephalus dorsalis - Speckled bush-cricket, Leptophyes punctatissima - House cricket, Acheta domesticus - Field cricket, Gryllus campestris - Mole cricket, Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa - Cepero's ground-hopper, Tetrix ceperoi - Slender ground-hopper, Tetrix subulata - Common Ground-hopper, Tetrix undulata - Stripe-winged grasshopper, Stenobothrus lineatus - Woodland grasshopper, Omocestus rufipes - Common green grasshopper, Omocestus viridulus - Common field grasshopper, Chorthippus brunneus - Meadow grasshopper, Chorthippus parallelus - Lesser marsh grasshopper, Chorthippus albomarginatus - Rufous grasshopper, Gomphocerrippus rufus - Mottled grasshopper, Myrmeleotettix maculatus
Dictyoptera, cockroaches:
- Dusky cockroach, Ectobius lapponicus - Tawny cockroach, Ectobius pallidus - Lesser cockroach, Ectobius panzeri
Dermaptera, earwigs: - Lesser earwig, Labia minor - Common earwig, Forficula auricularia - Lesne's earwig, Forficula lesnei
Do other species occur in Sussex? Watch out for Short winged earwig, Apterygida media (known from Kent and Surrey), Scaly cricket, Pseudomogoplistes sp. (recently found on shingle beaches in Guernsey, Sark, Normandy and Devon) and Tree cricket, Oecanthus pellucens (known from Normandy, this species which sounds like a trim 'phone may be spreading). Anything is possible.
