List of Orthoptera species of Ireland

Common Green Grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus)

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)

Subfamily: Oedipodinae (bandwings)

Family: Phaneropteridae

Tribe: Barbitistini

Family: Tettigoniidae

Subfamily: Meconematinae

Subfamily: Tettigoniinae

Family: Tetrigidae (pygmy grasshoppers)

Subfamily: Tetriginae

Family: Gryllotalpidae (mole crickets)

References

  1. ^ "Species Browser". maps.biodiversityireland.ie. Retrieved 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, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/204/Species/77992>
  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