List of Orthoptera species of Ireland explained

There are ten species of Orthoptera native to Ireland, seven grasshoppers and three bush-crickets .^[1] A further species, the mole cricket, is thought to be possibly extirpated, given only one record from 1920.^[2]

Family: Acrididae

Subfamily: Gomphocerinae (slant-faced grasshoppers)

• Genus: Chorthippus
  • Lesser marsh grasshopper Chorthippus albomarginatus
  • Common field grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus
• Genus: Myrmeleotettix
  • Mottled Grasshopper Myrmeleotettix maculatus
• Genus: Omocestus
  • Common Green Grasshopper Omocestus viridulus

Subfamily: Oedipodinae (bandwings)

• Genus: Stethophyma
  • Large Marsh Grasshopper Stethophyma grossum

Family: Phaneropteridae

Tribe: Barbitistini

• Genus: Leptophyes
  • Speckled bush-cricket Leptophyes punctatissima

Family: Tettigoniidae

Subfamily: Meconematinae

• Genus: Meconema
  • Southern oak bush cricket. Meconema meridionale^[3]

Subfamily: Tettigoniinae

• Genus: Metrioptera
  • Roesel's bush-cricket Metrioptera roeselii^[4]

Family: Tetrigidae (pygmy grasshoppers)

Subfamily: Tetriginae

• Genus: Tetrix
  • Slender Ground-hopper Tetrix subulata
  • Common Ground-hopper Tetrix undulata

Family: Gryllotalpidae (mole crickets)

• Genus: Gryllotalpa
  • European mole cricket Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa possibly extirpated

References

1. Web site: Species Browser. maps.biodiversityireland.ie. 2014-02-05.
2. Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Allied Insects (Orthoptera) of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa), accessed 30 November 2022,
3. A first Irish record of Meconema meridionale (Costa) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae).Irish Naturalists' Journal Volume 33, Part 2 2014 .
4. Anderson, R. 1, 1977 Metrioptera Roeselii (Hagenbach) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) New to Ireland. The Irish Naturalists' Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1977, pp. 17.

• W. D. Hincks, 1949 Handbooks For The Identification of British Insects: Vol. I Part 5 Dermaptera and Orthoptera Royal Entomological Society of London online as pdf

External links

• Web site: ire-amphibians . https://web.archive.org/web/20050501120440/http://www.thomsonecology.com/ire-amphibians.htm . 2005-05-01 . dead . 2014-02-05 .