The following is a list of the species of grasshopper, cricket and allied insects recorded from Britain. The insect orders covered by this list are: the Orthoptera - Grasshoppers and crickets 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. Many of the Orthopteran common names were synthesised from older sources or coined where necessary by Dr. DR Ragge. Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets) Suborder Ensifera (crickets) Family Tettigoniidae (bush-crickets) Oak bush-cricket Meconema thalassinum Southern oak bush-cricket Meconema meridionale (since 2001) 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 Roeseliana roeselii Long-winged conehead Conocephalus fuscus Short-winged Conehead Conocephalus dorsalis Speckled bush-cricket Leptophyes punctatissima Super-family Grylloidea Family Gryllidae House cricket Acheta domesticus Field cricket Gryllus campestris Family Mogoplistidae Scaly cricket Pseudomogoplistes squamiger Family Trigonidiidae Wood cricket Nemobius sylvestris Family Gryllotalpidae (mole-crickets) Mole cricket Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa Suborder Caelifera (grasshoppers & allies) Family Tetrigidae (groundhoppers) Cepero's groundhopper Tetrix ceperoi Slender groundhopper Tetrix subulata Common groundhopper Tetrix undulata Family Acrididae (grasshoppers) Large marsh grasshopper Stethophyma grossum - rare and restricted to the New Forest and Dorset Stripe-winged grasshopper Stenobothrus lineatus Lesser mottled grasshopper Stenobothrus stigmaticus (Isle of Man only) Woodland grasshopper Omocestus rufipes Common green grasshopper Omocestus viridulus Field grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus Heath grasshopper Chorthippus vagans Lesser marsh grasshopper Chorthippus albomarginatus Meadow grasshopper Pseudochorthippus parallelus Rufous grasshopper Gomphocerippus rufus Mottled grasshopper Myrmeleotettix maculatus Order Blattodea (cockroaches) Family Blattellidae Dusky cockroach Ectobius lapponicus Tawny cockroach Ectobius pallidus Lesser cockroach Capraiellus panzeri Order Dermaptera (earwigs) Family Spongiphoridae Lesser earwig Labia minor Family Forficulidae Short-winged earwig Apterygida media Common earwig Forficula auricularia Lesne's earwig Forficula lesnei References Orthoptera Britain L