British Crickets
Anthropoda/Insecta/Orthoptera
for comparison
Great green bush-cricket - Tettigonia viridissima
Grey bush-cricket - Platycleis albopunctata
Long-winged cone-head - Conocephalus discolor
Short-winged cone-head -Conocephalus dorsalis
Roesel's bush-cricket - Metrioptera roeselii
Oak bush-cricket - Meconema thalassinum
Speckled bush-cricket - Leptophyes punctatissima
Bog bush-cricket - Metrioptera brachyptera
Dark bush-cricket - Pholidoptera grisoaptera
Dark bush-cricket m 13-19mm / 13-20mm
female
male
male note the absence of wings in the female and the very small wings in the male. |
Roesel's
Bush-cricket m 13-26mm / f 15-21mm
female - (long-winged form)
male
male Note the yellow/green edge to the pronotum and the patches just behind it. No other British cricket has these distinctive patches
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Bog
bush-cricket m 11-18mm / f 13-21mm
female
male
female Body bright green beneath, dark brown above. Damp places. especially lowland heath where cross-leaved heath and purple moor dominate. |
Grey
bush-cricket
Platycleis albopunctata m 20-25mm / f 20-28mm
female
male
female grey-brown with wings longer than the abdomen. Found only along the south coast of England in coarse grass on sand dunes or shingle and on south facing cliffs. |
Speckled
Bush-Cricket m 9-16mm / f 11-18mm
male
male
male A close look will reveal the 'speckles' that give this cricket its name. Its appearance is very different to the Coneheads and it is much smaller than the other green bush-cricket species. |
Long-winged
Conehead m 16-21mm / f 16-22mm
female
male
female nymph Adults wings are longer than the body. The female's ovipostor is straight. In the Short-winged conehead it curves upward. |
| Grasshoppers and Allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland : Marshall & Haes :1990 A laminated identification chart
based on the book is available from the Field Studies Council |
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