List of Orthoptera species of Ireland
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 extinct.
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[2]
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
- Genus: Metrioptera
- Roesel's bush-cricket Metrioptera roeselii[3]
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 Extinct
References
- ^ "Species Browser". maps.biodiversityireland.ie. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
- ^ A first Irish record of Meconema meridionale (Costa) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae).Irish Naturalists' Journal Volume 33, Part 2 2014 .
- ^ 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
- "ire-amphibians". Archived from the original on 2005-05-01. Retrieved 2014-02-05.